Sizing up the heart: Development redux in disease

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1937-1956

  Olson, Eric N ^a   Schneider, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CALCINEURIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 9; CYCLIN T1; GENE PRODUCT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SMAD PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GERM LAYER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HEART; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOCARDIUM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0042161933     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1110103     Document Type: Review

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