Spatiotemporal pattern of commitment to slowed proliferation in the embryonic mouse heart indicates progressive differentiation of the cardiac conduction system

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 773-777

  Sedmera, David ^a   Reckova, Maria ^a   DeAlmeida, Angela ^a   Coppen, Steven R ^b   Kubalak, Steven W ^a   Gourdie, Robert G ^a   Thompson, Robert P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell birthdating; Differentiation; His Purkinje system; Label dilution; Myocyte proliferation

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; LABELING INDEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER;

EID: 0141890288     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10085     Document Type: Article

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