Mice deficient in the Fused homolog do not exhibit phenotypes indicative of perturbed hedgehog signaling during embryonic development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 7042-7053

  Chen, Miao Hsueh ^a   Gao, Nan ^a   Kawakami, Takatoshi ^a   Chuang, Pao Tien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ERINACEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23344453462     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.16.7042-7053.2005     Document Type: Article

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