Dual requirement of ectodermal Smad4 during AER formation and termination of feedback signaling in mouse limb buds

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 660-666

  Benazet, Jean Denis ^a,b   Zeller, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical ectodermal ridge; Autopod; BMP; Digit; Induction; Limb bud; Mouse; Msx2 Cre; Signaling; Smad4 inactivation

Indexed keywords

SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICAL ECTODERMAL RIDGE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; ECTRODACTYLY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORELIMB; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HINDLIMB; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDACTYLY; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

VERTEBRATA;

APICAL ECTODERMAL RIDGE; AUTOPOD; BMP; DIGIT; INDUCTION; LIMB BUD; MOUSE; MSX2-CRE; SIGNALING; SMAD4 INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ECTODERM; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIMB BUDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

EID: 84884710795     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22412     Document Type: Article

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