Misexpression of Cwnt8C in the mouse induces an ectopic embryonic axis and causes a truncation of the anterior neuroectoderm

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2997-3005

  Pöpperl, Heike ^a,b   Schmidt, Christel ^a   Wilson, Valerie ^a,c   Hume, C R ^e   Dodd, Jane ^d   Krumlauf, Robb ^a   Beddington, Rosa S P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Axis formation; Cwnt8C; Forebrain; Mouse; wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICKENS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ECTODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0345157203     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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