Embryonic heart failure in NFATc1-/- mice novel: Mechanistic insights from in utero ultrasound biomicroscopy

Circulation Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 92-99

  Phoon, Colin K L ^a,d   Ji, Rui Ping ^a   Aristizábal, Orlando ^a   Worrad, Diane M ^b   Zhou, Bin ^c   Baldwin, H Scott ^c   Turnbull, Daniel H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FPT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Embryonic circulation; Heart failure; NFAT; Ultrasound biomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEREDITY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEWBORN; NFATC1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3142738008     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000133681.99617.28     Document Type: Article

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