Cell mixing at a neural crest-mesoderm boundary and deficient ephrin-Eph signaling in the pathogenesis of craniosynostosis

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1319-1328

  Merrill, Amy E ^a   Bochukova, Elena G ^b   Brugger, Sean M ^c   Ishii, Mamoru ^a   Pilz, Daniela T ^d   Wall, Steven A ^e   Lyons, Karen M ^c   Wilkie, Andrew O M ^b   Maxson Jr , Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^e RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN; EPHRIN A4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESODERM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EPHRIN-A2; EPHRIN-A4; EPHRINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645810601     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl052     Document Type: Article

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