Concerted involvement of Cdx/Hox genes and Wnt signaling in morphogenesis of the caudal neural tube and cloacal derivatives from the posterior growth zone

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3451-3462

  van de Ven, Cesca ^a   Bialecka, Monika ^a   Neijts, Roel ^a   Young, Teddy ^a,f   Rowland, Jennifer E ^b   Stringer, Emma J ^c   van Rooijen, Carina ^a   Meijlink, Frits ^a   Nóvoa, Ana ^b   Freund, Jean Noel ^d   Mallo, Moises ^b,e   Beck, Felix ^c   Deschamps, Jacqueline ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Insituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^f INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ano rectal stenosis; Canonical Wnt pathway; Caudal regression syndrome; Mouse Cdx genes; Neurectoderm mesoderm generation

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HOX13 PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URORECTAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL TUBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRETINOIN; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 79960770539     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.066118     Document Type: Article

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