Building the heart piece by piece: Modularity of cis-elements regulating Nkx2-5 transcription

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 4187-4192

  Schwartz, Robert J ^a   Olson, Eric N ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

cis element; Heart; Nkx2.5; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0032727374     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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