Expression of Dlx and Lhx family homeobox genes in fetal thymus and thymocytes

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-320

  Woodside, Kenneth J ^a,b   Shen, Howard ^a   Muntzel, Christiana ^a   Daller, John A ^b   Sommers, Connie L ^a   Love, Paul E ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Dlx; Fetal thymocytes; Homeobox gene; Lhx; Lim; Thymus; Thymus development

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SCREENING; EMBRYO; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOID CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STEM CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MURINAE;

EID: 1642374639     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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