Polarity proteins are required for left-right axis orientation and twin-twin instruction

Genesis

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 219-234

  Vandenberg, Laura N ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Heterotaxia; Ion flux; Left right asymmetry; Par6; Vangl2

Indexed keywords

APICAL BASAL POLARITY PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; PLANAR CELL POLARITY PROTEIN; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XNR 1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; BLASTODERM; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CILIARY MOTILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; CILIA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEROTONIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TWINS, CONJOINED; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857995101     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20825     Document Type: Review

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