SOX7 and SOX18 are essential for cardiogenesis in Xenopus

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 234, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 878-891

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Basta, Tamara ^a   Klymkowsky, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin signaling; Cardiogenesis; Nodal signaling; SOX18; SOX7

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX18; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX18BETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EXPLANT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INJECTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 28444446266     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20565     Document Type: Article

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