Cardiac expression of the ventricle-specific homeobox gene Irx4 is modulated by Nkx2-5 and dHand

Developmental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 266-277

  Bruneau, Benoit G ^a   Bao, Zheng Zheng ^a   Tanaka, Makoto ^c   Schott, Jean Jacques ^a,b   Izumo, Seigo ^c   Cepko, Constance L ^a,b   Seidman, J G ^a,b   Seidman, Christine E ^a,b,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Homeobox gene; Patterning

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 5P; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA IROQUOIS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034650311     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9548     Document Type: Article

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