Divergent roles for NK-2 class homeobox genes in cardiogenesis in flies and mice

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3037-3048

  Ranganayakulu, Gogineni ^a   Elliott, David A ^b,c   Harvey, Richard P ^b,c   Olson, Eric N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiogenesis; Drosophila; Heart; Mouse; Nkx2 5; tinman

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MICE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031685432     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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