Skeletal and cardiac α-actin isoforms exhibit unanticipated temporal and tissue-specific gene expression patterns in developing avian limbs and embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 322-334

  Lin Jones, Jennifer ^a   Hauschka, Stephen D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYOD1 PROTEIN; MYOGENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031572292     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8677     Document Type: Article

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