Input overload: Contributions of retinoic acid signaling feedback mechanisms to heart development and teratogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 513-523

  D'Aniello, Enrico ^a   Waxman, Joshua S ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac progenitors; Development; Heart; Morphogen; Patterning; Retinoic acid; Signaling feedback; Teratogenesis; Transcriptional regulation; Vertebrates; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; HEART; METABOLISM;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; TERATOGENESIS; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84924205889     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24232     Document Type: Article

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