Neurotrophin-3 knocks heart off Trk

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1069-1071

  Srivastava, Deepak ^a,b   Olson, Eric N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3;

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL CREST; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0029821687     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1096-1069     Document Type: Short Survey

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