Expression and function of the LIM homeobox containing genes Lhx3 and Lhx4 in the mouse placenta

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1517-1525

  Tian, Geng ^a   Singh, Umashankar ^a   Yu, Yang ^a   Ellsworth, Buffy S ^b   Hemberger, Myriam ^c   Geyer, Rudolf ^d   Stewart, M David ^e   Behringer, Richard R ^e   Fundele, Reinald ^a,f  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lhx3; Lhx4; LIM homeobox gene; Mouse placenta

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; INNER EAR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECEPTORS, LHRH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 43449104227     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21546     Document Type: Article

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