The tip-top branching ureter

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 877-884

  Sariola, Hannu ^a   Sainio, Kirsi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETER;

EID: 0030723136     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(97)80091-9     Document Type: Article

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