"Soft" tissue patterning: Muscles and tendons of the limb take their form

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1100-1107

  Hasson, Peleg ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Connective tissue; Limb; Muscle; Patterning; Tendon

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; RETINOIC ACID; SCATTER FACTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; LIGAMENT; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE MASS; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON; TENDON;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MUSCLES; TENDONS;

EID: 79954986559     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22608     Document Type: Review

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