Apoptotic cell death in the mouse limb and its suppression in the hammertoe mutant.

doi:10.1006/dbio.1994.1255

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Apoptotic cell death in the mouse limb and its suppression in the hammertoe mutant.

Developmental biology - 1 Sept 1994

Zakeri Z, Quaglino D, Ahuja H S

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We examined the importance of cell death in producing the limb deformity phenotype of the Hammertoe mouse. In order to make this evaluation, we first combined several techniques to verify the reliability of cell death markers in the normal mouse limb. In the normal limb, cell death occurs between...

Topics

Animals
Apoptosis
Extremities
Female
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Limb Deformities, Congenital
Male
Mice
Mice, Mutant Strains
Phenotype

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