The Limbs

Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 123-166

  Ferretti, Patrizia ^a   Tickle, Cheryll ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antero posterior patterning signaling cascade in Drosophila wing development; Limb regeneration; Limbs; Msx1 and Msx2 related homeobox containing genes; Prod 1 modulating cellular interactions of blastemal cells; Soft tissue syndactyly autosomal dominant abnormality; Sonic hedgehog gene and polarizing region signal; Synostosis fusion between successive skeletal elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883907914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470090121.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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