Vertebrate model systems in the study of early heart development: Xenopus and zebrafish

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 248-257

  Lohr, Jamie L ^a   Yost, H Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Laterality; Left right development; Organogenesis; Xenopus; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIFFUSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034443890     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-8628(200024)97:4<248::AID-AJMG1275>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Review

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