Myofibrillogenesis in the developing chicken heart: Assembly of Z-disk, M-line and the thick filaments

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1529-1539

  Ehler, Elisabeth ^a   Rothen, Barbara M ^a   Hämmerle, Sibylle P ^a   Komiyama, Masatoshi ^a,b   Perriard, Jean Claude ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cytoarchitecture; Heart development; Myofibrillogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA ACTININ; BINDING PROTEIN; CONNECTIN; EPITOPE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOMESIN; PROTEIN C;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHICKEN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SARCOMERE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033013812     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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