Molecular mechanisms of cardiac development

Cardiac Adaptations: Molecular Mechanisms

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-39

  Roche, Patricia ^a,b   Czubryt, Michael P ^a,b   Wigle, Jeffrey T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b St Boniface Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac crescent; Cardiogenesis; MicroRNAs; Proepicardial organ; Second heart field (SHF); Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886947992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5203-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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