Characterization of the mouse transforming growth factor gene: Its expression during eyelid development and in waved 1 tissues

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1271-1282

  Berkowitz, Eugene A ^a   Seroogy, Kim B ^b   Schroeder, Joyce A ^a   Russell, William E ^c   Evans, Edward P ^d   Riedel, Richard F ^a   Phillips, Harmony K ^a   Harrison, Charles A ^a   Lee, David C ^a,e   Luetteke, Noreen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYELID; EYELID CLOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CORNEA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITHELIUM; EYELIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10244252796     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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