Absence of Endochondral Ossification and Craniosynostosis in Posterior Frontal Cranial Sutures of Axin2-/- Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Behr, Björn ^a,b   Longaker, Michael T ^a   Quarto, Natalina ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXIN PROTEIN; CARTILAGE; CHONDROCYTES; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; OSTEOGENESIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84881011065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070240     Document Type: Article

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