Review Article

The Roles of Hedgehog Signaling in Upper Lip Formation

Table 1

Mouse mutants that were used for investigating Shh signaling and lip development.

Mutated geneType of mutationPhenotype Reference

Patched1 ENUCL[7]
Patched1CKO (neural crest)CL[33]
Smo CKO (neural crest)Truncated face[35]
Shh Ectoderm overexpressionMalformed lip[36]
Boc, Gas1Double KOCL/P[31]
Kif3aCKO (neural crest)Hypertelorism, CP[41]
Ift172ENUCP[42]
Ift144ENUCL/P[44]

ENU: N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea. CKO: conditional knockout. KO: knockout. CL: cleft lip. CP: cleft palate. CL/P: cleft lip and palate.