The developmentally regulated expression of serum response factor plays a key role in the control of smooth muscle-specific genes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-37

  Browning, Curtis L ^a   Culberson, Donald E ^b,d   Aragon, Ileana V ^a   Fillmore, Rebecca A ^a   Croissant, Jeffrey D ^c,e   Schwartz, Robert J ^c   Zimmer, Warren E ^a,f  

^a Dept of Struct and Cell Biology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Springhill Medical Center   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AVIAN STOMACH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032005445     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8808     Document Type: Article

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