An HF-1 a/ HF-1b/MEF-2 combinatorial element confers cardiac ventricular specificity and establishes an anterior-posterior gradient of expression

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1799-1809

  Ross, Robert S ^a,c   Navankasattusas, Sutip ^a,b   Harvey, Richard P ^d   Chien, Kenneth R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiogenesis; Embryonic patterning; Homeobox genes; Morphogenesis; Retinoic acid receptor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; LAC OPERON; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SP4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029896641     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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