Article
Reaction-diffusion control of heart development: evidence for activation and inhibition in precardiac mesoderm.
Developmental biology - 1 Dec 1993
Smith S C, Armstrong J B
Abstract excerpt
In axolotl embryos homozygous for the cardiac-lethal (c) gene, the heart never begins to beat. Recently, we demonstrated that the c gene affects the heart mesoderm directly, making the latter incapable of responding to normal inductive stimuli. Based on these results, we proposed that a reaction-...
Topics
- Ambystoma
- Animals
- Diffusion
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Heart
- Mesoderm
- Phenotype