The SCL gene specifies haemangioblast development from early mesoderm

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 4029-4045

  Gering, M ^a   Rodaway, A R F ^b   Gottgens B ^a   Patient, R K ^b   Green, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haemangioblast; Haematopoiesis; SCL; Vasculogenesis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; MESODERM; NEURAL TUBE; NOTOCHORD; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; KIDNEY TUBULES; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOD PROTEIN; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHYLOGENY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOMITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0032528275     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.14.4029     Document Type: Article

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