Evolution and development of the building plan of the vertebrate heart

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1833, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 783-794

  Jensen, Bjarke ^a,b   Wang, Tobias ^b   Christoffels, Vincent M ^a   Moorman, Antoon F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conduction system; Development; Electrophysiology; Evolution; Gene expression; Heart

Indexed keywords

T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX20; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EVOLUTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; VERTEBRATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875065836     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: 18792596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.10.004     Document Type: Review

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