Determining how defects in connexin43 cause skeletal disease

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 75-82

  Ton, Quynh V ^a   Iovine, M Kathryn ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone growth; Cx43; Gap junction; Limb wing appendage tissue; Signaling process; Skeletal development; Skeletal tissue

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NEUROPILIN; OSTEOCALCIN; PLEXIN; SEMAPHORIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE DISEASE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DENSITY; DWARFISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SYNDACTYLY;

ANIMALS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE DISEASES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; OSTEOBLASTS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873989445     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22349     Document Type: Review

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