Essential role for the Pak4 protein kinase in extraembryonic tissue development and vessel formation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 126, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 710-720

  Tian, Yanmei ^a   Lei, Liang ^a   Cammarano, Marta ^b   Nekrasova, Tanya ^a   Minden, Audrey ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intercos   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Development; Pak4; Placenta; Vascularization; Yolk sac

Indexed keywords

P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 4;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; P21-ACTIVATED KINASES; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 68449101709     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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