Plasticity of cell fate: Insights from heterokaryons

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-272

  Blau, Helen M ^a   Blakely, Bruce T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Differentiation; Heterokaryon; Myogenesis; Regulation

Indexed keywords

MYOGENIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYBRID CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; RAT; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; MICE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLES; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033141822     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1999.0311     Document Type: Article

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