Chicken Nkx-2.8: A novel homeobox gene expressed in early heart progenitor cells and pharyngeal pouch-2 and -3 endoderm

Developmental Biology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 295-311

  Reecy, James M ^a   Yamada, Miho ^a   Cummings, Kathleen ^a   Sosic, Drazen ^b   Chen, Ching Yi ^a,c   Eichele, Gregor ^a   Olson, Eric N ^b   Schwartz, Robert J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031571635     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8641     Document Type: Article

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