The Notch pathway: Democracy and aristocracy in the selection of cell fate

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 594-601

  Kopan, Raphael ^a   Turner, David L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0030273294     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(96)80090-0     Document Type: Article

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