The migrating gubernaculum grows like a "limb bud"

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 387-390

  Nightingale, Sophie S ^a,b   Western, Patrick ^b,c   Hutson, John M ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Fgf10; Gubernaculum; Hoxa10; Limb bud; Testicular descent; Undescended testes

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TESTIS DESCENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INGUINAL CANAL; LIMB BUDS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SCROTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 38949120222     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.08.016     Document Type: Article

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