Heart and neural tube defects in transgenic mice overexpressing the Cx43 gap junction gene

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1281-1292

  Ewart, J L ^a   Cohen, M F ^a   Meyer, R A ^a,b   Huang, G Y ^a   Wessels, A ^c   Gourdie, R G ^c   Chin, A J ^d   Park, S M J ^a   Lazatin, B O ^a   Villabon, S ^a   Lo, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMV; Connexin; Cx43; Gap junction; Heart defect; Mouse embryo; Neural crest; Neural tube defect; Outflow tract; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; DYE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HOMOZYGOTE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030972376     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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