Targeted ablation of the murine α-tropomyosin gene

Circulation Research

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1005-1010

  Blanchard, Edward M ^a   Iizuka, Kenji ^a   Christe, Michael ^a   Conner, David A ^a   Geisterfer Lowrance, Anja ^d   Schoen, Frederick J ^c   Maughan, David W ^b   Seidman, Christine E ^c   Seidman, Jonathan G ^a,e  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NPS Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Haploinsufficiency; Knockout mouse; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; MOUSE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SARCOMERE; STEM CELL;

EID: 0030732231     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.81.6.1005     Document Type: Article

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