Differential effects of EGF receptor signalling on neuroblast lineages along the dorsoventral axis of the Drosophila CNS

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3291-3300

  Udolph, Gerald ^a,b   Urban, Joachim ^a   Rüsing, Gwenda ^a   Lüer, Karin ^a   Technau, Gerhard M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cell fate; CNS; Dorsoventral patterning; Drosophila; EGF receptor signalling; Neuroblast

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; MUTATION; NEURONS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0031664711     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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