Temporal and spatial expression of the myostatin gene during chicken embryo development

Growth, Development and Aging

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-12

  Castelhano Barbosa, Elaine C ^a   Gabriel, Jane E ^a   Álvarez, Lúcia E ^a   Monteiro Vitorello, Cláudia B ^a   Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alternative transcript; Chicken embryos; GDF 8; Myostatin; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSTATIN; THYMINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOWL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INCUBATION TIME; MODULATION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HELICOBACTER HEILMANNII TYPE 1; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 25844508412     PISSN: 10411232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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