Pitx2c patterns anterior myocardium and aortic arch vessels and is required for local cell movement into atrioventricular cushions

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 5081-5091

  Liu, Chengyu ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Palie, Jennifer ^a   Lu, Mei Fang ^a   Brown, Nigel A ^a   Martin, James F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Homeobox; Morphogenesis; Mouse

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN PITX2C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CELL MOTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDOCARDIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; ISOMERISM; MESODERM; MESOTHELIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PULMONARY VEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BODY PATTERNING; BRANCHIAL REGION; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL CREST; PULMONARY VEINS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036849873     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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