c-kit expression identifies cardiovascular precursors in the neonatal heart

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1808-1813

  Tallini, Yvonne N ^a   Kai, Su Greene ^a   Craven, Michael ^a   Spealman, Alyson ^a   Breitbach, Martin ^b   Smith, James ^a   Fisher, Patricia J ^a   Steffey, Michele ^a   Hesse, Michael ^b   Doran, Robert M ^a   Woods, Ashley ^a   Singh, Babu ^a   Yen, Andrew ^a   Fleischmann, Bernd K ^b   Kotlikoff, Michael I ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial artificial chromosome; Progenitor cell; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NESTIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CORONARY VESSELS; CRYOSURGERY; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 60549090414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808920106     Document Type: Article

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