Cdx mediates neural tube closure through transcriptional regulation of the planar cell polarity gene Ptk7

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1361-1370

  Savory, Joanne G A ^a   Mansfield, Melissa ^a   Rijli, Filippo M ^b   Lohnes, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cdx; Craniorachischisis; Mouse; Neural tube; Ptk7

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PTK7 GENE; SCRIB GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955127220     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.056622     Document Type: Article

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