Patterning cell types in the dorsal spinal cord: What the mouse mutants say

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 290-298

  Caspary, Tamara ^a   Anderson, Kathryn V ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL TYPE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DORSAL ROOT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0142091639     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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