Finger or toe: The molecular basis of limb identity

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 6401-6410

  Logan, Malcolm ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MIGRATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; FINGER MALFORMATION; FORELIMB; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HINDLIMB; HOLT ORAM SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIMB BUD; LIMB MALFORMATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOE MALFORMATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LIMB BUD; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345874463     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00956     Document Type: Review

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