Mouse mutant embryos lacking huntingtin are rescued from lethality by wild-type extraembryonic tissues

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1529-1539

  Dragatsis, Loannis ^a   Efstratiadis, Argiris ^a   Zeitlin, Scott ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chimera; Hdh gene; Huntingtin; Visceral endoderm

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; HUNTINGTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIFFERENTIATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IRON TRANSPORT; LETHAL MUTANT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLASTOCYST; CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2642646258     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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