Identification of upstream regulatory regions in the heart-expressed homeobox gene Nkx2-5

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 839-849

  Reecy, James M ^a   Li, Xuyang ^a   Yamada, Miho ^a   DeMayo, Francesco J ^a   Newman, Craig S ^d   Harvey, Richard P ^b,c   Schwartz, Robert J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart; Mouse; Nkx2 5; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SPLEEN; STEM CELL; STOMACH; THYROID GLAND; TONGUE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, REPORTER; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033013018     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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