Pitx2 confers left morphological, molecular, and functional identity to the sinus venosus myocardium

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-301

  Ammirabile, Grazia ^a   Tessari, Alessandra ^a   Pignataro, Viviana ^a   Szumska, Dorota ^b   Sutera Sardo, Fabio ^a   Benes, Jiri ^c,d   Balistreri, Mariangela ^a   Bhattacharya, Shoumo ^b   Sedmera, David ^c,d   Campione, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Mouse cardiac development; Optical mapping; Pitx2; Sinus venosus myocardium

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE INACTIVATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOMERISM; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINUS NODE; SINUS VENOSUS; SINUS VENOSUS MYOCARDIUM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SINOATRIAL NODE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84856173462     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvr314     Document Type: Article

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