Expression of the T-box family genes, Tbx1-Tbx5, during early mouse development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 379-390

  Chapman, Deborah L ^a   Garvey, Nancy ^b   Hancock, Sarah ^b   Alexiou, Maria ^a   Agulnik, Sergei I ^b   Gibson Brown, Jeremy J ^a   Cebra Thomas, Judith ^b   Bollag, Roni J ^b,c   Silver, Lee M ^b   Papaioannou, Virginia E ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Induction; Mouse embryogenesis; T box; Tbx1; Tbx2; Tbx3; Tbx4; Tbx5

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 0342658137     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199608)206:4<379::AID-AJA4>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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