A Boolean Model of the Cardiac Gene Regulatory Network Determining First and Second Heart Field Identity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Herrmann, Franziska ^a   Groß, Alexander ^a   Zhou, Dao ^a   Kestler, Hans A ^a   Kühl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOLEAN MODEL; CARDIAC PROGENITOR CELL; CARDIAC STEM CELL; FIRST HEART FIELD; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MESODERM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SECOND HEART FIELD; SIMULATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIUM;

MUS;

EID: 84867026877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046798     Document Type: Article

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