Vertebrate neural cell-fate determination: Lessons from the retina

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-118

  Livesey, F J ^a   Cepko, C L ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSACTIVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035257731     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35053522     Document Type: Article

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