Heart malformations in transgenic mice exhibiting dominant negative inhibition of gap junctional communication in neural crest cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 224-234

  Sullivan, R ^a   Huang, G Y ^a   Meyer, R A ^a,b   Wessels, A ^c   Linask, K K ^d   Lo, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Conotruncus; Doppler echocardiography; Gap junctions; Gap juuctional communication; Heart defect; Neural crest; Outflow tract; 1 connexin

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; GAP JUNCTION; HEART FUNCTION; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032373862     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9089     Document Type: Article

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