Tendon development requires regulation of cell condensation and cell shape via cadherin-11-mediated cell-cell junctions

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 6218-6228

  Richardson, Susan H ^a   Starborg, Tobias ^a   Lu, Yinhui ^a   Humphries, Sally M ^a   Meadows, Roger S ^a   Kadler, Karl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MESENCHYME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TENDON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CHICK EMBRYO; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MICE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TENDONS;

EID: 34548227328     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00261-07     Document Type: Article

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