The cardiac mutant mexican axolotl is a unique animal model for evaluation of cardiac myofibrillogenesis

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 557-566

  Zajdel, Robert W ^a   Dube, Dipak K ^a   Lemanski, Larry F ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Cationic liposomes; Myofibrils; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TROPOMYOSIN;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033134015     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4419     Document Type: Article

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