Evidence that translation of smooth muscle alpha-actin mRNA is delayed in the chick promyocardium until fusion of the bilateral heart-forming regions

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 316-330

  Colas, Jean François ^a   Lawson, Aaron ^a   Schoenwolf, Gary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell shape; Chick embryo; Coelom; In situ hybridization; Mesoderm; Myofibrillogenesis; Polyadenylation; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA stability

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0034075655     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(200006)218:2<316::AID-DVDY6>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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