Islet1 regulates establishment of the posterior hindlimb field upstream of the Hand2-Shh morphoregulatory gene network in mouse embryos

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1620-1629

  Itou, Junji ^a,b   Kawakami, Hiroko ^a,b   Quach, Thu ^a   Osterwalder, Marco ^c   Evans, Sylvia M ^d   Zeller, Rolf ^c   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forelimb hindlimb; Hand2; Islet1; Limb; Mouse; Pitx1 Tbx4; Shh

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HAND 2 GENE; HINDLIMB; ISLET 1 GENE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SHH GENE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PELVIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859323534     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.073056     Document Type: Article

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