Developmental and tissue-specific regulation of the murine cardiac actin gene in vivo depends on distinct skeletal and cardiac muscle-specific enhancer elements in addition to the proximal promoter

Developmental Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 200-212

  Biben, Christine ^a   Hadchouel, Juliette ^a   Tajbakhsh, Shahragim ^a   Buckingham, Margaret ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; HEART MUSCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030063740     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0017     Document Type: Article

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