Xenopus: An emerging model for studying congenital heart disease

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 495-510

  Kaltenbrun, Erin ^a,b   Tandon, Panna ^a   Amin, Nirav M ^a   Waldron, Lauren ^a   Showell, Chris ^a   Conlon, Frank L ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Cardiomyocyte; Congenital heart disease; Heart development; Xenopus laevis; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BINDING PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BRG1 PROTEIN; CHROMODOMAIN HELICASE DNA BINDING PROTEIN 7; GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ALPHA; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 2; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 2; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT11 PROTEIN; WT1 PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 3;

ARTERIAL TRUNK; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AXENFELD REIGER SYNDROME; BINDING AFFINITY; BLASTOMERE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM DERIVED CELL; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HOLT ORAM SYNDROME; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NOONAN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SYNDROME CHARGE; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; UPREGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; MORPHOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 79958172223     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20793     Document Type: Review

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