Pitx2c modulates cardiac-specific transcription factors networks in differentiating cardiomyocytes from murine embryonic stem cells

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 349-362

  Lozano Velasco, Estefanía ^a   Chinchilla, Ana ^a   Martínez Fernández, Sergio ^a   Hernández Torres, Francisco ^a   Navarro, Francisco ^a   Lyons, Gary E ^b   Franco, Diego ^a   Aránega, Amelia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocytes; Cell culture; Differentiation; Embryonic stem cells; Pitx2c

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CONNEXIN 40; MESSENGER RNA; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; MYOD PROTEIN; NESTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ISL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MEF2C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; VIRUS EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 80054732631     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323533     Document Type: Article

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