Vertebrate homologs of tinman and bagpipe: Roles of the homeobox genes in cardiovascular development

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 239-249

  Tanaka, Makoto ^a   Kasahara, Hideko ^a   Bartunkova, Sonia ^a   Schinke, Martina ^a   Komuro, Issei ^b   Inagaki, Hidetoshi ^c   Lee, Youngsook ^d   Lyons, Gary E ^d   Izumo, Seigo ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d University of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

^e SL 201 Beth Israel Deaconess M ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Gene targeting; Homeobox genes; Mesoderm specification; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHICKEN; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; DROSOPHILA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031805612     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)22:3<239::AID-DVG6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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