Multiple transforming growth factor-β isoforms and receptors function during epithelial-mesenchymal cell transformation in the embryonic heart

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 185, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 146-156

  Mercado Pimentel, Melania E ^a   Runyan, Raymond B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

ALK2; ALK5; Endoglin; Transforming growth factor 2; Transforming growth factor 3

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; BINDING PROTEIN; ENDOGLIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHICK; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 34250695906     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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