Intersecting signalling and transcriptional pathways in Drosophila heart specification

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-71

  Frasch, Manfred ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal vessel; Drosophila; Heart; Induction; Mesoderm; Pattern formation; Signalling

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

DPP PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; WINGLESS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEART; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MESODERM; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MESODERM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 0033071157     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1998.0279     Document Type: Article

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