Essential role of Smad4 in maintaining cardiomyocyte proliferation during murine embryonic heart development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 311, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-146

  Qi, Xin ^a,b   Yang, Guan ^a   Yang, Leilei ^a   Lan, Yu ^a   Weng, Tujun ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Wu, Zhuang ^c   Xu, Jun ^c   Gao, Xiang ^b   Yang, Xiao ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocyte; Conditional gene knockout; Differentiation; Proliferation; Smad4

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; LIGAND; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ALPHA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN BETA; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; LETHALITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

MURINAE;

EID: 35348989283     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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