Left and right contributions to the Xenopus heart: Implications for asymmetric morphogenesis

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 213, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 390-398

  Gormley, Joseph P ^a,b   Nascone Yoder, Nanette M ^a  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryology; Heart; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOCARDIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042328106     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-003-0337-5     Document Type: Article

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