Cdx mutant axial progenitor cells are rescued by grafting to a wild type environment

Developmental Biology

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 228-234

  Bialecka, Monika ^a   Wilson, Valerie ^b   Deschamps, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial progenitors; Cdx genes; Mouse embryogenesis; Posterior axial extension; Posterior growth zone

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXIAL PROGENITOR CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LABELING; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 77957292883     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.08.032     Document Type: Article

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