Overexpression of Connexin43 alters the mutant phenotype of midgestational Wnt-1 null mice resulting in recovery of the midbrain and cerebellum

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 224-238

  Melloy, Patricia G ^a,c   Kusnierczyk, Michelle K ^a,d   Meyer, Rita A ^e   Lo, Cecilia W ^b,f   Desmond, Mary E ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari II malformations; Embryonic neural tube; Isthmus; Midbrain hindbrain junction; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; DYE; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL JUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; STAINING;

EID: 14644389382     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20158     Document Type: Article

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