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  3. Differences in left-right axis pathways in mouse and chick: functions of FGF8 and SHH

Differences in left-right axis pathways in mouse and chick: functions of FGF8 and SHH

  • Science. 1999 Jul 16;285(5426):403-6. doi: 10.1126/science.285.5426.403.
E N Meyers 1,  G R Martin
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  • 1 Department of Anatomy and Program in Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, and Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
PMID: 10411502 DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5426.403
Abstract

A molecular pathway leading to left-right asymmetry in the chick embryo has been described, in which FGF8 is a right determinant and Sonic Hedgehog a left determinant. Here evidence is presented that the Fgf8 and Sonic Hedgehog genes are required for left-right axis determination in the mouse embryo, but that they have different functions from those previously reported in the chick. In the mouse FGF8 is a left determinant and Sonic Hedgehog is required to prevent left determinants from being expressed on the right.

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