Sentences with phrase «hairless gene»

This is a result of the hairless gene that sometimes causes the dog to have fewer teeth than other breeds.

Many American hairless terriers are, as advertised, bare - skinned, though others have short coats but carry the hairless gene.

On the other hand, a Powderpuff bred to another Powderpuff can never produce hairless puppies, since they do not carry the Hairless gene.

Expressing the Hairless gene in some cells rescued mutant mice from the chill of baldness.

Hadassah University Medical Center claims the world's largest collection of patients with genetic hair diseases, including roughly half the documented cases of papular atrichia, the condition Christiano linked to the hairless gene.

Still, by identifying the human hairless gene as an important master switch in regulating cell death in a hair follicle — a discovery that could lead to gene therapies for unwanted hair growth — Christiano emerged as a new star in the field, and a glamorous one.

[3] Zygotes affected with double hairless genes (1 in 4) never develop into puppies, and are reabsorbed in the womb.

Not exact matches

Research led by Margery Smelkinson found that NS1 modulates the activitiy of a signaling cascade known as the Hedgehog pathway (so named because fruit fly larvae lacking the Hedgehog gene emerge hairless and resemble tiny hedgehogs).

The researchers confirmed this by engineering the Hairless mutant mice to express a working copy of the gene just in their PK cells.

It may interest you to know that the gene that produces hairless Cresteds is also linked to teeth problems.

Breeding / Reproduction The Chinese Crested Hairless and the Chinese Crested Powderpuff both carry a copy of the Powderpuff gene, and for this reason both types are often found in the same litter.

But smaller breeds have their problems as well, like the Bashkir Curly where many breeders continue to use and promote the use of hairless (extreme / baldy *) horses in breeding based on the anecdote that they are homozygous for the curly coat gene; these are horses who are defenseless to weather extremes (head & cold) and bugs (no manes, no tail hair, many times large swaths of their body hairless as well).

The American Hairless Terrier is the only hairless breed that is a result of a recessiHairless Terrier is the only hairless breed that is a result of a recessihairless breed that is a result of a recessive gene.

The hairless trait that makes these dogs so unusual is actually an incomplete dominant gene and many of the Chinese Cresteds have full coats (Powderpuff varieties).