A role for Smad6 in development and homeostasis of the cardiovascular system

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-174

  Galvin, Katherine M ^a   Donovan, Michael J ^a   Lynch, Catherine A ^a   Meyer, Ronald I ^a   Paul, Richard J ^b   Lorenz, John N ^b   Fairchild Huntress, Victoria ^a   Dixon, Kristen L ^a   Dunmore, Judy H ^a   Gimbrone Jr , Michael A ^c   Falb, Dean ^a   Huszar, Dennis ^a  

^a MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD6 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 17444453852     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72835     Document Type: Article

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