A window to the heart: Can zebrafish mutants help us understand heart disease in humans?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 491-494

  Sehnert, Amy J ^a   Stainier, Didier Y R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CONNECTIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PICKWICK; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN T; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLASTOMERE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEATH; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BEAT; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SUDDEN DEATH; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0036806199     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02766-X     Document Type: Review

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