Organization and developmental expression of an amphibian vascular smooth muscle α-actin gene

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 233, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1546-1553

  Warkman, Andrew S ^a,b   Zheng, Li ^a   Qadir, Mohammed A ^a   Atkinson, Burr G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractile proteins; Heart muscle; In situ hybridization; Rana catesbeiana; Smooth muscle actin gene; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HEART MUSCLE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; TADPOLE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RANA CATESBEIANA; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; RANA CATESBEIANA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 22244473285     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20457     Document Type: Article

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