Publications:
pertaining to signaling in the musculoskeletal system
Fan, C.-M. and Tessier-Lavigne, M. (1994). Patterning of Mammalian Somites by the Surface Ectoderm and the Notochord: Evidence for Sclerotome Induction by a Hedgehog Homolog. Cell 79, 1175-1186.
Fan, C.-M., Porter, J., Chiang, C., Chang, D.T., Beachy, P.A., and Tessier-Lavigne, M. (1995). Long-Range Sclerotome Induction by Sonic Hedgehog: Direct Role of the Amino-Terminal Cleavage Product and Modulation by the cyclic-AMP Signaling Pathway. Cell 81, 457-465.
Fan, C.-M., Kuwana, E., Bulfone, A., Fletcher, C. F., Copeland, N. G., Jenkins, N. A., Crews, S., Salvador, M., Puelles, L., Rubenstein, J. L. R., and Tessier-Lavigne, M. (1996). Expression Patterns of Two Murine Homologs of Drosophila single-minded Suggest Possible Roles in Embryonic Patterning and in the Pathogenesis of Down Syndrome. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 7, 1-16.
McMahon, J., Takada, S., Zimmerman, L.B., Fan, C.-M., Harland, R.M., and McMahon, A.P. (1998) Noggin-mediated antagonism of BMP signaling is required for growth and patterning of the neural tube and somite. Genes & Development 12, 1438-1452.
Michaud, J., Rosenquist, T., May, N.R., and C.-M. Fan. (1998). Development of neuroendocrine lineages requires the BHLH-PAS transcription factor SIM1. Genes & Development 12, 3264-3275.
Michaud, J.L., Boucher, F., Melnyk, A., Gauthier, F, Goshu, E., Levy, E., Mitchell, G.A., Himms-Hagen, J., and C.-M. Fan. (2001). Human Molecular Genetics 10, 1465-1473.