The mouse SLIT family: Secreted ligands for ROBO expressed in patterns that suggest a role in morphogenesis and axon guidance

Developmental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 290-306

  Yuan, Wenlin ^a   Zhou, Lijuan ^a   Chen, Jin hui ^b   Wu, Jane Y ^a   Rao, Yi ^a   Ornitz, David M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Institute of Neuroscience   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; CELL MIGRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033566579     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9371     Document Type: Article

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