Regulation of cardiac muscle differentiation in Xenopus laevis embryos

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2002, Pages 13-18

  Mohun, T ^a   Latinkic, B ^a   Towers, N ^a   Kotecha, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 5; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENICS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MUSCLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TISSUE; HEART TISSUE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; STRIATED MUSCLE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037786856     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2002.67.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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