The kit ligand encoded at the murine Steel locus: a pleiotropic growth and differentiation factor.

doi:10.1016/0955-0674(91)90111-b

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The kit ligand encoded at the murine Steel locus: a pleiotropic growth and differentiation factor.

Current opinion in cell biology - 1 Dec 1991

Besmer P

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The c-kit receptor and its recently identified ligand are allelic with the murine White Spotting and Steel loci, respectively. These observations brought to light the functions of the c-kit receptor system in melanogenesis, gametogenesis and hematopoeisis during embryogenesis and in postnatal lif...

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Animals
Mice
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Phenotype
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit
Receptors, Cell Surface
Signal Transduction

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