Pan-myocardial expression of Cre recombinase throughout mouse development

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 135-144

  Breckenridge, Ross ^a   Kotecha, Surendra ^a   Towers, Norma ^a   Bennett, Michael ^a   Mohun, Tim ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cre; Development; Heart; Tbx5; XMLC2

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 2; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY VEIN; REPORTER GENE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TBX5 GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34247247216     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20275     Document Type: Article

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