Timed deletion of Twist1 in the limb bud reveals age-specific impacts on autopod and zeugopod patterning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Loebel, David A F ^a,b   Hor, Angelyn C C ^a   Bildsoe, Heidi K ^a,b   Tam, Patrick P L ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; GREM1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HAND2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXD1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOXD10 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOXD13 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PATCHED RECEPTORS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TWIST1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GREM1 GENE; HOXD10 GENE; HOXD11 GENE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWIST1 GENE; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEUGOPOD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DEFICIENCY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIMB BUD; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMB BUDS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84902532338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098945     Document Type: Article

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