T-box transcription factors and their roles in regulatory hierarchies in the developing heart

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 4897-4910

  Stennard, Fiona A ^a   Harvey, Richard P ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 28844438924     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02099     Document Type: Review

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