Requirement of the transcription factor GATA4 for heart tube formation and ventral morphogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1061-1072

  Molkentin, Jeffery D ^a   Lin, Qing ^a   Duncan, Stephen A ^b   Olson, Eric N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior intestinal portal; cardia bifida; cardiac morphogenesis; foregut; GATA4; transcription

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030996908     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.8.1061     Document Type: Article

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