Acceleration of somitic myogenesis in embryos of myogenin promoter-MRF4 transgenic mice

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 382-394

  Block, Nancy E ^b   Zhu, Zhimin ^d   Kachinsky, Amy M ^c   Dominov, Janice A ^d   Miller, Jeffrey Boone ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Embryos; MRF4; Myogenin; Somites; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DERMATOME; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOMITE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; MYOGENIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOMITES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029909704     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199612)207:4<382::AID-AJA3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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