Cardiac chamber formation: Development, genes, and evolution

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1223-1267

  Moorman, Antoon F M ^a,b   Christoffels, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0038707943     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00006.2003     Document Type: Review

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