Recombineering-based dissection of flanking and paralogous Hox gene functions in mouse reproductive tracts

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2942-2952

  Raines, Anna M ^a   Adam, Mike ^a   Magella, Bliss ^a   Meyer, Sara E ^a   Grimes, H Leighton ^a   Dey, Sudhansu K ^a   Potter, S Steven ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeotic transformations; Hox genes; Mouse; Recombineering; Reproductive tracts

Indexed keywords

SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWN REGULATION; DYSKERATOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOX GENE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOXP SITE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PARALOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRATIFICATION; SUBFERTILITY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAS DEFERENS;

HOMEOTIC TRANSFORMATIONS; HOX GENES; MOUSE; RECOMBINEERING; REPRODUCTIVE TRACTS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; UTERUS; VAS DEFERENS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84879631567     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.092569     Document Type: Article

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