Lessons from the lily pad: using Xenopus to understand heart disease

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 141-146

  Bartlett, Heather L ^a   Weeks, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; XENOPUS;

EID: 67651250062     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2009.02.006     Document Type: Review

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