Myogenic regulatory factors and the specification of muscle progenitors in vertebrate embryos

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2002, Pages 747-783

  Pownall, Mary Elizabeth ^a   Gustafsson, Marcus K ^b   Emerson Jr , Charles P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MRF4; Myf5; MyoD; Myogenin

Indexed keywords

MYOD1 PROTEIN; MYOGENIC FACTOR; MYOGENIC FACTOR 5; PROTEIN MRF4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYF5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MYOD PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PAX GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGULATOR GENE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VERTEBRATE;

ANURA; AVES; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0036437330     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.18.012502.105758     Document Type: Review

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