SLUG (SNAI2) overexpression in embryonic development

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-29

  Perez Mancera P A ^a   Gonzalez Herrero I ^a   Maclean, K ^c   Turner, A M ^c   Yip, M Y ^d   Sanchez Martin M ^a   Garcia J L ^a   Robledo, C ^a   Flores, T ^a   Gutierrez Adan A ^b   Pintado, B ^b   Sanchez Garcia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Inst Nac de Invest Agronomicas   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SNAIL RELATED ZINC FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOMEGALY; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PIEBALDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SLUG GENE; SUDDEN DEATH; TRANSGENE; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME MAP; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRISOMY;

GASTROPODA;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRISOMY;

EID: 33744979303     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091924     Document Type: Article

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