The BMP family member Gdf7 is required for seminal vesicle growth, branching morphogenesis, and cytodifferentiation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 138-150

  Settle, Stephen ^a,c   Marker, Paul ^b   Gurley, Kyle ^a   Sinha, Abhishek ^a,d   Thacker, Abigail ^a   Wang, Yuzhuo ^b   Higgins, Kay ^a,e   Cunha, Gerald ^b   Kingsley, David M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE GRAFT;

EID: 0343337332     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0244     Document Type: Article

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