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Expression of Nkx2.5 in wild type, cardiac mutant, and thyroxine-induced metamorphosed hearts of the Mexican axolotl.
Cardiovascular toxicology - 1 Mar 2009
Thurston Harold L, Prayaga Sastry, Thomas Anish, Guharoy Victor, Dube Syamalima, Poiesz Bernard J, Dube Dipak K
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Nkx2.5, a homeodomain-containing transcription factor, is known to be necessary for normal heart development in vertebrates. It is one of the earliest lineage-restricted genes expressed in cardiovascular progenitor cells and knowledge of its expression patterns has important therapeutic implications for damaged cardiomyocytes. Mexican axolotl is a unique system to study heart development for two reasons: the...
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