Somatic mesoderm differentiation and the development of a subset of pericardial cells depend on the not enough muscles (nem) locus, which contains the inscuteable gene and the intron located gene, skittles

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-81

  Knirr, Stefan ^a,b   Breuer, Sebastian ^a   Paululat, Achim ^a   Renkawitz Pohl, Renate ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS; Eve; Heart; Insc; Kr; Myogenesis; Nem; Pericardial cells; PNS; Sktl; Somatic mesoderm

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HEART; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR);

EID: 0030870622     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00109-3     Document Type: Article

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