Heart defects in connexin43-deficient mice

Circulation Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 360-366

  Ya, Jing ^c   Erdtsieck Ernste, Erna B H W ^c   De Boer, Piet A J ^c   Van Kempen, Marjan J A ^c   Jongsma, Habo ^c   Gros, Daniel ^a   Moorman, Antoon F M ^c   Lamers, Wouter H ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Cardiac malformation; Connexin

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032559623     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.82.3.360     Document Type: Article

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