The Snail Family Gene Snai3 Is Not Essential for Embryogenesis in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bradley, Cara K ^a,d   Norton, Christine R ^a   Chen, Ying ^a,b   Han, Xianghua ^a   Booth, Carmen J ^c   Yoon, Jeong Kyo ^a   Krebs, Luke T ^a   Gridley, Thomas ^a  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Genea   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMOZYGOTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SNAI3 GENE; THYMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GASTROPODA; MAMMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; SNAI3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84878773594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065344     Document Type: Article

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