Fashioning the vertebrate heart: Earliest embryonic decisions

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2099-2117

  Fishman, Mark C ^a,b   Chien, Kenneth R ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mouse; Myogenesis; Organ; Pattern; Polarity; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEART; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030806299     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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