Characterization of Connexin31.1-deficient mice reveals impaired placental development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 258-271

  Zheng Fischhöfer, Qingyi ^a   Kibschull, Mark ^b,f   Schnichels, Marc ^a   Kretz, Markus ^a   Petrasch Parwez, Elisabeth ^c   Strotmann, Jörg ^d   Reucher, Harald ^e   Lynn, Bruce D ^g   Nagy, James I ^g   Lye, Stephen J ^f   Winterhager, Elke ^b   Willecke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^f MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cx31.1; Gap junctions; Glycogen cells; Olfactory epithelium; Placenta; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 31 1; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; INHERITANCE; INNER EAR; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; ORGANOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; TROPHOBLAST; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 36549031783     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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