Recruitment and maintenance of tendon progenitors by TGFΒ signaling are essential for tendon formation

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1351-1361

  Pryce, Brian A ^a   Watson, Spencer S ^a   Murchison, Nicholas D ^a   Staverosky, Julia A ^a,b   Dünker, Nicole ^c   Schweitzer, Ronen ^a,d  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connective tissue; Ligaments; Mouse; Tendons; TGF

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SCLERAXIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TGFB2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TGFB3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; HEAD; LIMB; MOUSE; MUSCLE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; TENDON; TENDON DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRUNK; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL; TIME; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARTILAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EXTREMITIES; MICE; MUSCLES; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

EID: 67650754417     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.027342     Document Type: Article

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