The Mohawk homeobox gene is a critical regulator of tendon differentiation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10538-10542

  Ito, Yoshiaki ^a   Toriuchi, Naoya ^a   Yoshitaka, Teruhito ^a   Ueno Kudoh, Hiroe ^a   Sato, Tempei ^a   Yokoyama, Shigetoshi ^a   Nishida, Keiichiro ^b   Akimoto, Takayuki ^c   Takahashi, Michiko ^a   Miyaki, Shigeru ^a   Asahara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; HOMEOBOX PROTEIN MOHAWK; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FIBER; GENE FUNCTION; HYPOPLASIA; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TAIL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLLAGEN TYPE I; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

MUS;

EID: 77953776267     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000525107     Document Type: Article

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