Partners in crime: How two sox proteins cooperate to specify arterial fate

Circulation Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-2

  Jin, Suk Won ^a   Patterson, Cam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial specification; Sox protein; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX18; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX7;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 37848999392     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.107.168237     Document Type: Editorial

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