Apoptosis induced by vitamin A signaling is crucial for connecting the ureters to the bladder

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1082-1089

  Batourina, Ekatherina ^a   Tsai, Sheaumei ^a   Lambert, Sarah ^a   Sprenkle, Preston ^a   Viana, Renata ^a   Dutta, Sonia ^a   Hensle, Terry ^a   Wang, Fengwei ^a   Niederreither, Karen ^b   McMahon, Andrew P ^c   Carroll, Thomas J ^d   Mendelsohn, Cathy L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETER; UROGENITAL SINUS; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEPHRONS; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETER; URINARY BLADDER; VITAMIN A;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27144524316     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1645     Document Type: Article

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