Pitx2 and cardiac development: A molecular link between left/right signaling and congenital heart disease

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2002, Pages 89-95

  Campione, M ^b   Acosta, L ^a   Martinez S ^a   Icardo, J M ^c   Aranega A ^a   Franco, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PITX2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VENOUS RETURN;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

EID: 0038713356     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2002.67.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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