Combinatorial transcriptional interaction within the cardiac neural crest: A pair of HANDs in heart formation

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-161

  Firulli, Anthony B ^a   Conway, Simon J ^a  

^a RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALLELE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MESENCHYME; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DIMERIZATION; HEART; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIUM; NEURAL CREST; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 3843120174     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20009     Document Type: Review

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