Vertebrate CASTOR Is Required for Differentiation of Cardiac Precursor Cells at the Ventral Midline

Developmental Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 616-623

  Christine, Kathleen S ^a   Conlon, Frank L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

DEVBIO

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CASTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDODERM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 41649104495     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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