How cells change their phenotype

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-194

  Tosh, David ^a   Slack, Jonathan M W ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; BRAIN CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METAPLASIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUSCLE CELL; MYOBLAST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; METAPLASIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0036517883     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm761     Document Type: Review

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