Remembrance of things PAS: Regulation of development by bHLH-PAS proteins

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 580-587

  Crews, Stephen T ^a   Fan, Chen Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; OXYGEN; TOXIN;

BIOSENSOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOXIA; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032872915     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)00003-9     Document Type: Review

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