Cardiopoietic factors extracellular signals for cardiac lineage commitment

Circulation Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-152

  Noseda, Michela ^a   Peterkin, Tessa ^b   Simões, Filipa C ^b   Patient, Roger ^b   Schneider, Michael D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Cardiac differentiation; Myocyte regeneration; Regeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN NODAL; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

AMPHIBIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOWL; HEART; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 79251616707     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.223792     Document Type: Review

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