Parsing the prosencephalon

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 943-951

  Rallu, Murielle ^a   Corbin, Joshua G ^a   Fishell, Gord ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FOREBRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROSENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036885133     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn989     Document Type: Article

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