The morphology of heart development in Xenopus laevis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 74-88

  Mohun, Timothy J ^a   Leong, Li Ming ^a   Weninger, Wolfgang J ^b   Sparrow, Duncan B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0343485105     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9559     Document Type: Article

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