The Xenopus GATA-4/5/6 genes are associated with cardiac specification and can regulate cardiac-specific transcription during embryogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 258-270

  Jiang, Yongmei ^a   Evans, Todd ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GATA FACTOR; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029978152     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0071     Document Type: Article

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