Creation of chimeric mutant axolotls: A model to study early embryonic heart development in Mexican axolotls

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 335-342

  Lemanski, L F ^a   Meng, F ^a   Lemanski, S L ^a   Dawson, N ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Foster, D ^a   Li, Q ^a   Nakatsugawa, M ^b   Zajdel, R W ^b   Dube, D K ^b   Huang, X ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal; Chimera; Gene; Mutation; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART BEAT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; PHENOTYPE; TIME FACTORS;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035001839     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290100158     Document Type: Article

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