Transcriptional activity of MEF2 during mouse embryogenesis monitored with a MEF2-dependent transgene

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2045-2052

  Naya, Francisco J ^a   Wu, Chuanzhen ^a   Richardson, James A ^b   Overbeek, Paul ^c   Olson, Eric N ^a  

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

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

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

MEF2; Transcriptional activity; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DESMIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DESMIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LAC OPERON; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCARDIUM; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; SOMITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033010960     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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