Localized and Temporal Gene Regulation in Heart Development

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-201

  Barnett, Phil ^a   den Boogaard, Malou van ^a   Christoffels, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Heart development; Localization; Transcription factor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858754349     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387786-4.00004-X     Document Type: Chapter

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