Evaluating the role of Wnt signal transduction in promoting the development of the heart

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 161-176

  Eisenberg, Leonard M ^a   Eisenberg, Carol A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Dickkopf; Frizzled related proteins; Heart; Mesoderm; Myocardium; Wnt

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; HEART; HUMANS; MESODERM; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846857736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2007.71     Document Type: Review

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