Differential expression of non-muscle myosin heavy chain genes during Xenopus embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 33-36

  Bhatia Dey, Naina ^a   Taira, Masanori ^b,d   Conti, Mary Anne ^a   Nooruddin, Humaira ^a   Adelstein, Robert S ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin A; Animal caps; Differential expression; Non muscle myosin; Non muscle myosin heavy chain A; Non muscle myosin heavy chain B; Non sarcomeric myosin; Whole mount in situ hybridization; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMITE; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031647942     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00136-1     Document Type: Article

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