Increased Cdx protein dose effects upon axial patterning in transgenic lines of mice

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2511-2520

  Gaunt, Stephen J ^a   Drage, Deborah ^a   Trubshaw, Richard C ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cdx; Homeotic transformation; Hox; Mouse; Overexpression

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MORPHOGEN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA7;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SPINE MALFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SPINE; TAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 50649096017     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.015909     Document Type: Article

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