N-cadherin is crucial for heart formation in the chick embryo

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 451-455

  Nakagawa, Shinichi ^a   Takeichi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken embryo; Heart development; Myocardium; N cadherin; Splanchnic mesoderm

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030755115     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-3-00006.x     Document Type: Article

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