Irxl1 mutant mice show reduced tendon differentiation and no patterning defects in musculoskeletal system development

Genesis

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-9

  Kimura, Wataru ^a   Machii, Masashi ^a   Xue, XiaoDong ^a   Sultana, Nishat ^a   Hikosaka, Keisuke ^a   Sharkar, Mohammad T K ^a   Uezato, Tadayoshi ^a   Matsuda, Masashi ^b   Koseki, Haruhiko ^b   Miura, Naoyuki ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Knockout mice; Muscle; Skeleton; TALE homeodomain; Tendon

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; IROQUOIS RELATED HOMEOBOX LIKE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOZYGOTE; LETTER; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TENDONS;

MUS;

EID: 78751637366     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20688     Document Type: Letter

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