Genetic and epigenetic control of muscle development in vertebrates

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 199-212

  Brand Saberi, Beate ^a   Christ, Bodo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bhHLH; Cell migration; Differentiation; MADS box transcription factors; Myogenesis; pax genes; Transcript ion factors

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHICKEN; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; HEAD; LIMB; MARKER GENE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOTOME; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; STEM CELL; TONGUE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032925463     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051281     Document Type: Review

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