Vertebrate tinman homologues and cardiac differentiation

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-83

  Evans, Sylvia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Homeobox genes; Mesoderm specification; Nkx genes; Tinman

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0033072866     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1999.0282     Document Type: Article

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