Gap junction proteins exhibit early and specific expression during intramembranous bone formation in the developing chick mandible.

doi:10.1007/BF00234301

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Gap junction proteins exhibit early and specific expression during intramembranous bone formation in the developing chick mandible.

Anatomy and embryology - 1 Sept 1994

Minkoff R, Rundus V R, Parker S B, Hertzberg E L, Laing J G, Beyer E C

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The spatial and temporal expression of three closely related members of the connexin family of gap junction proteins (connexin42, Cx42; connexin43, Cx43; and connexin45, Cx45) was evaluated during bone formation in the mandibular process of the chick embryo. Mandibles of chick embryos from Hambur...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Chick Embryo
Connexins
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Mandible
Molecular Sequence Data
Osteogenesis
Phenotype

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