Increased thymus- and decreased parathyroid-fated organ domains in Splotch mutant embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 216-227

  Griffith, Ann V ^a   Cardenas, Kim ^a   Carter, Carla ^a   Gordon, Julie ^b   Iberg, Aimee ^a   Engleka, Kurt ^c   Epstein, Jonathan A ^c   Manley, Nancy R ^b   Richie, Ellen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural crest cells; Parathyroid; Pax3; Pharyngeal pouch endoderm; Thymus

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXN1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCM2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOGENESIS; PARATHYROID GLAND; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS APLASIA;

EID: 59649125002     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.12.019     Document Type: Article

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