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Nature Genetics 38, 1204–1209 (1 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1874

Indian hedgehog is a major mediator of progesterone signaling in the mouse uterus

Kevin Lee , JaeWook Jeong , Inseok Kwak , Cheng-Tai Yu , Beate Lanske , Desi W Soegiarto , Rune Toftgard , Ming-Jer Tsai , Sophia Tsai , John P Lydon & Francesco J DeMayo

The hedgehog family of morphogens are regulators of cell proliferation, differentiation and cell-cell communication. These morphogens have been shown to have important roles in organogenesis, spermatogenesis, stem cell maintenance and oncogenesis.