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Altered Pax gene expression in murine notochord mutants: the notochord is required to initiate and maintain ventral identity in the somite.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Dec 1993
Dietrich S, Schubert F R, Gruss P
Abstract excerpt
We have characterised the patterning capacity of the notochord on the somite using the murine Pax-1 gene as a ventral, and Pax-3 as a dorsal molecular marker. As model systems we chose the four mouse notochord mutants Brachyury curtailed (Tc), Danforth's short tail (Sd), Pintail (Pt) and truncate (tc). Their notochord either is initially absent or progressively degenerates. The use of these mutants enabled us to...
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