An Fgf/Gremlin inhibitory feedback loop triggers termination of limb bud outgrowth

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7204, 2008, Pages 638-641

  Verheyden, Jamie M ^a   Sun, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GREMLIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; MORPHOGENESIS; REGENERATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMB BUDS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 48349106444     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07085     Document Type: Article

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