Role of the NF-ATc transcription factor in morphogenesis of cardiac valves and septum

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6672, 1998, Pages 182-186

  De La Pompa, José Luis ^a   Timmerman, Lulka A ^b   Takimoto, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshida, Hiroki ^a   Elia, Andrew J ^a   Samper, Enrique ^a   Potter, Julia ^a   Wakeham, Andrew ^a   Marengere, Luc ^a   Langille, B Lowell ^a,c   Crabtree, Gerald R ^b   Mak, Tak W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Toronto General Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NF ATC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CELL LINE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIUM; FETAL DEATH; GENE TARGETING; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TACROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032510493     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32419     Document Type: Article

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