Signaling molecules, transcription growth factors and other regulators revealed from in-vivo and in-vitro models for the regulation of cardiac development

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 183, Issue , 2015, Pages 117-128

  Meganathan, Kesavan ^a,b   Sotiriadou, Isaia ^a   Natarajan, Karthick ^a   Hescheler, Jürgen ^a   Sachinidis, Agapios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Embryonic stem cells; Long noncoding RNA; MicroRNA; Small molecules; Transcription factors; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN; MIRN1228 MICRORNA, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HEART; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; RNA, LONG NONCODING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84926664583     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.01.049     Document Type: Review

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