cMeso-1, a novel bHLH transcription factor, is involved in somite formation in chicken embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-215

  Buchberger, Astrid ^a   Seidl, Klaus ^a   Klein, Christian ^a   Eberhardt, Heike ^a   Arnold, Hans Henning ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BHLH transcription factor; Mesoderm development; Somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SOMITE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032528460     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8919     Document Type: Article

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