jumonji gene is essential for the neurulation and cardiac development of mouse embryos with a C3H/He background

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 29-38

  Takeuchi, Takashi ^a   Kojima, Mizuyo ^a   Nakajima, Kuniko ^a   Kondo, Shunzo ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulbus cordis; Cardiac defects; Cardiac myocytes; Cell proliferation; Gene trap; Heart morphogenesis; jumonji; Myogenesis; Neural plate; Neural tube defects; Neurulation; Ventricular trabeculae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOCARDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUTANT; NEURAL TUBE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BULBUS;

EID: 0032772975     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00100-8     Document Type: Article

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