Tinman function is essential for vertebrate heart development: Elimination of cardiac differentiation by dominant inhibitory mutants of the tinman-related genes, XNkx2-3 and XNkx2-5

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 187-196

  Grow, Matthew W ^a   Krieg, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Homeobox; Homeodomain; NK2; Tinman; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032380010     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9080     Document Type: Article

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