The functional diversity of essential genes required for mammalian cardiac development

Genesis

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 713-737

  Clowes, Christopher ^a   Boylan, Michael G S ^a   Ridge, Liam A ^a   Barnes, Emma ^b   Wright, Jayne A ^b   Hentges, Kathryn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac chamber specification; Epicardium; Heart; Heart fields; Sarcomere; Trabeculation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC NEURAL CREST CELL; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION; EPICARDIUM; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; OVERLAPPING GENE; PHARYNGEAL ARCH ARTERY; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; MAMMAL; MOUSE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HEART; MAMMALS; MICE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84904888612     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22794     Document Type: Article

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