Homozygous Ft embryos are affected in floor plate maintenance and ventral neural tube patterning

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 623-630

  Götz, Katrin ^a   Briscoe, James ^b   Rüther, Ulrich ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floor plate; Irx genes; Mouse mutant; Neural tube; Patterning

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FT GENE; FUSION GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IRXB GENE; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 19544383964     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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