The MADS domain containing transcription factor cMef2a is expressed in heart and skeletal muscle during embryonic chick development

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 209, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 376-381

  Buchberger, Astrid ^a   Arnold, Hans Henning ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chick embryogenesis; Heart development; MEF 2 transcription factor; Myogenesis

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033022368     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050267     Document Type: Article

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