Thalamocortical development: How are we going to get there?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 276-289

  López Bendito, Guillermina ^a   Molnár, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH PROMOTOR; INTRINSIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH CONE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; THALAMUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GROWTH CONES; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THALAMUS;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037762675     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1075     Document Type: Article

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