Spatiotemporal regulation of an Hcn4 enhancer defines a role for Mef2c and HDACs in cardiac electrical patterning

Developmental Biology

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 149-162

  Vedantham, Vasanth ^a,b   Evangelista, Melissa ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Srivastava, Deepak ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular bundle; Cardiac automaticity; Cis regulatory element; Electrical remodeling; Hcn4; Mef2C

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED ION CHANNEL 4; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HIS BUNDLE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84870062068     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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