Alteration in connexin 43 gap junction gene dosage impairs conotruncal heart development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-44

  Huang, G Y ^a   Wessels, A ^b   Smith, B R ^c   Linask, K K ^d   Ewart, J L ^a   Lo, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Doppler echocardiography; Gap junctions; Heart defects; Magnetic resonance microscopy; Neural crest; Outflow tract; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE DOSAGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032100436     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(98)80027-4     Document Type: Article

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