Progressive atrioventricular conduction defects and heart failure in mice expressing a mutant Csx/Nkx2.5 homeoprotein

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 189-201

  Kasahara, Hideko ^a   Wakimoto, Hiroko ^b   Liu, Margaret ^c   Maguire, Colin T ^b   Converso, Kimber L ^a   Shioi, Tetsuo ^a   Huang, Weei Yuarn ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a   Paul, David ^b   Lawitts, Joel ^b   Berul, Charles I ^b   Izumo, Seigo ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN CSX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FAILURE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0034947445     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI12694     Document Type: Article

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