Mechanisms of retinoic acid signalling and its roles in organ and limb development

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 110-123

  Cunningham, Thomas J ^a   Duester, Gregg ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR;

GENE ACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMB; METABOLISM; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EXTREMITIES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84923199000     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3932     Document Type: Review

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