Lhx1 is required for specification of the renal progenitor cell field.

In the vertebrate embryo, the kidney is derived from the intermediate mesoderm. The LIM-class homeobox transcription factor lhx1 is expressed early in the intermediate mesoderm and is one of the first genes to be expressed in the nephric mesenchyme. In this study, we investigated the role of Lhx1 in...

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Main Authors: M Cecilia Cirio, Zhao Hui, Caroline E Haldin, Chiara Cianciolo Cosentino, Carsten Stuckenholz, Xiongfong Chen, Sung-Kook Hong, Igor B Dawid, Neil A Hukriede
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3078140?pdf=render