Dominant activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway alters development of the female reproductive tract

Genesis

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-40

  Migone, Fernando F ^a   Ren, Yi ^a   Cowan, Robert G ^a   Harman, Rebecca M ^a   Nikitin, Alexander Yu ^b   Quirk, Susan M ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hox; Inflammation; M llerian; Smoothened; Uterus; Wnt

Indexed keywords

HEDGEHOG INTERACTING PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SMOM2 PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOMINANT GENE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ALTERATION; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEDGEHOG SIGNALING PATHWAY; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVIDUCT; OVULATION INHIBITION; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA; VASECTOMY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULLERIAN DUCTS; MUTATION; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS; WNT PROTEINS;

ERINACEIDAE; MUS;

EID: 84856228854     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20786     Document Type: Article

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