Handed asymmetry in the mouse: understanding how things go right (or left) by studying how they go wrong.

doi:10.1006/scdb.1997.0186

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Handed asymmetry in the mouse: understanding how things go right (or left) by studying how they go wrong.

Seminars in cell & developmental biology - 1 Feb 1998

Supp D M, Brueckner M, Potter S S

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All vertebrates have characteristic asymmetries along the left/right axis. The positioning of asymmetric visceral organs is highly conserved evolutionarily and disruptions in left/right patterning can lead to severe morphological defects, demonstrating the importance of regulation of left/right d...

Topics

Animals
Body Patterning
Congenital Abnormalities
Dyneins
Mice
Mutation

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