Postnatal myosin heavy chain isoforms in prenatal porcine skeletal muscles: Insights into temporal regulation

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

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 731-740

  Da Costa, Nuno ^a   McGillivray, Christine ^a   Chang, Kin Chow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expression; Myosin heavy chain; Porcine; Prenatal; Quantitative PCR; Temporal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FETUS; GENE ORDER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0141924806     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10083     Document Type: Article

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