HRT1, HRT2, and HRT3: A new subclass of bHLH transcription factors marking specific cardiac, somitic, and pharyngeal arch segments

Developmental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 72-84

  Nakagawa, Osamu ^a,b   Nakagawa, Masayo ^a,b   Richardson, James A ^b   Olson, Eric N ^a   Srivastava, Deepak ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032715827     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9454     Document Type: Article

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