HMGB factors are required for posterior digit development through integrating signaling pathway activities

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1151-1162

  Itou, Junji ^a,b   Taniguchi, Noboru ^c   Oishi, Isao ^d   Kawakami, Hiroko ^a,b   Lotz, Martin ^c   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMP; HMGB; Limb; Posterior digit; Shh; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FIN (ORGAN); FINGER; FORELIMB; GENE SILENCING; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HMGB PROTEINS; HMGB1 PROTEIN; HMGB2 PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MUS;

EID: 79955023093     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22598     Document Type: Article

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