The fibronectin leucine-rich repeat transmembrane protein Flrt2 is required in the epicardium to promote heart morphogenesis

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1297-1308

  Müller, Pari Sima ^a   Schulz, Ramona ^a,c   Maretto, Silvia ^a,d   Costello, Ita ^a   Srinivas, Shankar ^b   Bikoff, Elizabeth ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Basement membrane; Cardiogenesis; Epicardium; Flrt proteins; Leucine rich repeats; Mouse

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLRT2; PROTEIN FLRT3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDODERM; EPICARDIUM; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGANOGENESIS; PERICARDIUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79955126801     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.059386     Document Type: Article

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