Specification of dorsal spinal cord interneurons

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-49

  Helms, Amy W ^a   Johnson, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; NEUROTRANSMITTER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; INTERNEURON; MITOSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0037320689     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00010-2     Document Type: Review

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