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The Rx homeobox gene is essential for vertebrate eye development by Mathers, P. H, Grinberg, A, Mahon, K. A, Jamrich, M

“…Development of the vertebrate eye requires a series of steps including specification of the anterior neural plate, evagination of the optic vesicles from the…”
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Multistep Control of Pituitary Organogenesis by Sheng, Hui Z., Moriyama, Kenji, Yamashita, Tsuyoshi, Li, Hung, Potter, S. Steven, Mahon, Kathleen A., Westphal, Heiner

“…Lhx3 and Lhx4 (Gsh4), two closely related LIM homeobox genes, determine formation of the pituitary gland in mice. Rathke's pouch is formed in two steps-first…”
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Specification of Pituitary Cell Lineages by the LIM Homeobox Gene Lhx3 by Sheng, Hui Z., Zhadanov, Alexander B., Mosinger, Bedrich, Fujii, Tetsuya, Bertuzzi, Stefano, Grinberg, Alexander, Lee, Eric J., Huang, Sing-Ping, Mahon, Kathleen A., Westphal, Heiner

“…During pituitary organogenesis, the progressive differentiation of distinct pituitary-specific cell lineages from a common primordium involves a series of…”
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Measurement of body composition changes with weight loss in postmenopausal women: comparison of methods by Mahon, A K, Flynn, M G, Iglay, H B, Stewart, L K, Johnson, C A, McFarlin, B K, Campbell, W W

“…The accurate measurement of body composition changes is important when evaluating the efficacy of medical nutrition therapy and weight management programs, yet…”
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Molecular Characterization of NSCL, a Gene Encoding a Helix-Loop-Helix Protein Expressed in the Developing Nervous System by Begley, C. Glenn, Lipkowitz, Stan, Gobel, Verena, Mahon, Kathleen A., Bertness, Virginia, Green, Anthony R., Gough, Nicholas M., Kirsch, Ilan R.

“…We report here the molecular cloning and chromosomal localization of an additional member of the helix-loop-helix (HLH) family of transcription factors, NSCL…”
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A Xenopus Distal-Less Gene in Transgenic Mice: Conserved Regulation in Distal Limb Epidermis and Other Sites of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interaction by Morasso, Maria I., Mahon, Kathleen A., Sargent, Thomas D.

“…In this paper, we show the conserved regulation of the homeodomain gene Distal-less-3 (Dlx-3) by analyzing the expression of a promoter from the Xenopus…”
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Inactivation of a sperm motility gene by insertion of an epidermal growth factor receptor transgene whose product is overexpressed and compartmentalized during spermatogenesis by MERLINO, G. T, STAHLE, C, JHAPPAN, C, LINTON, R, MAHON, K. A, WILLINGHAM, M. C

“…Transgenic mice were generated with a human epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor cDNA driven by the chicken beta-actin gene promoter. One line (AE24) that…”
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Placental Failure in Mice Lacking the Homeobox Gene Dlx3 by Morasso, Maria I., Grinberg, Alexander, Robinson, Gertraud, Sargent, Thomas D., Mahon, Kathleen A.

“…Dlx3 is a homeodomain transcription factor and a member of the vertebrate Distal-less family. Targeted deletion of the mouse Dlx3 gene results in embryonic…”
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Prenatal Lethality in a Transgenic Mouse Line is the Result of a Chromosomal Translocation by Mahon, Kathleen A., Overbeek, Paul A., Westphal, Heiner

“…We have produced a line of transgenic mice that is characterized by prenatal lethality. These mice bear a chimeric plasmid containing the long terminal repeat…”
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Oncogenesis of the Lens in Transgenic Mice by Mahon, Kathleen A., Chepelinsky, Ana B., Khillan, Jaspal S., Overbeek, Paul A., Piatigorsky, Joram, Westphal, Heiner

“…Neoplastic tumors of the ocular lens of vertebrates do not naturally occur. Transgenic mice carrying a hybrid gene comprising the murine α A-crystallin…”
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Formation of Rathke's pouch requires dual induction from the diencephalon by Takuma, N, Sheng, H Z, Furuta, Y, Ward, J M, Sharma, K, Hogan, B L, Pfaff, S L, Westphal, H, Kimura, S, Mahon, K A

“…Targeted disruption of the homeobox gene T/ebp (Nkx2.1, Ttf1, Titf1) in mice results in ablation of the pituitary. Paradoxically, while T/ebp is expressed in…”
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Rpx: a novel anterior-restricted homeobox gene progressively activated in the prechordal plate, anterior neural plate and Rathke's pouch of the mouse embryo by Hermesz, E, Mackem, S, Mahon, K A

“…We have isolated a new murine homeobox gene, Rpx (for Rathke's pouch homeobox), that is dynamically expressed in the prospective cephalic region of the embryo…”
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Assignment of the human homolog of mouse Dlx3 to chromosome 17q21.3-q22 by analysis of somatic cell hybrids and fluorescence in situ hybridization by Scherer, S W, Heng, H H, Robinson, G W, Mahon, K A, Evans, J P, Tsui, L C

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Transcription of a Satellite DNA in the Newt by Epstein, Lloyd M., Mahon, Kathleen A., Gall, Joseph G.

“…Satellite 2 is an abundant, 330-bp tandemly repeated sequence in the genome of the newt, Notophthalmus viridescens. This sequence is distributed throughout the…”
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Expression of homeobox gene Hox 1.1 during mouse embryogenesis by Mahon, K A, Westphal, H, Gruss, P

“…Many of the genes controlling segmentation and pattern formation in Drosophila contain a conserved 183 bp sequence known as the homeobox. Homeobox sequences…”
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The Ames dwarf gene, df, is required early in pituitary ontogeny for the extinction of Rpx transcription and initiation of lineage-specific cell proliferation by Gage, P J, Brinkmeier, M L, Scarlett, L M, Knapp, L T, Camper, S A, Mahon, K A

“…Two nonallelic dwarfing mutations in mice define genes important for pituitary development and function. Mice homozygous for either the Ames (df) or Snell (Pit…”
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Hoxd-12 differentially affects preaxial and postaxial chondrogenic branches in the limb and regulates Sonic hedgehog in a positive feedback loop by Knezevic, V, De Santo, R, Schughart, K, Huffstadt, U, Chiang, C, Mahon, K A, Mackem, S

“…Several 5′ members of the Hoxd cluster are expressed in nested posterior-distal domains of the limb bud suggesting a role in regulating anteroposterior…”
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Expression and amplification in transgenic mice of a polyoma virus mutant regulatory region by KRIPPL, B, GRIEP, A. E, MAHON, K. A, BÖHNLEIN, E, GRUSS, P, WESTPHAL, H

“…Two hybrid gene constructs consisting of wild-type and mutant polyoma regulatory regions fused to a bacterial reporter gene were inserted in the mouse…”
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Hypogonadism and obesity in mice with a targeted deletion of the Nhlh2 gene by Good, D.J. (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.), Porter, F.D, Mahon, K.A, Parlow, A.F, Westphal, H, Kirsch, I.R

“…The family of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) genes comprises transcription factors involved in many aspects of growth and development. We have previously…”
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Histone RNA in amphibian oocytes visualized by in situ hybridization to methacrylate‐embedded tissue sections by Jamrich, M., Mahon, K.A., Gavis, E.R., Gall, J.G.

“…We present an in situ hybridization method for detecting cellular RNAs in tissue sections using methacrylate as the embedding medium. The technique offers the…”
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