A homologue of Drosophila tissue polarity gene frizzled is expressed in migrating myofibroblasts in the infarcted rat heart

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 541-544

  Matthijs Blankesteijn, W ^a   Essers Janssen, Yvonne P G ^a   Verluyten, Monique J A ^a   Daemen, Mat J A P ^a   Smits, Jos F M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART INFARCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 16944366396     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0597-541     Document Type: Article

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