Neural crest specification: Migrating into genomics

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 795-805

  Gammill, Laura S ^a   Bronner Fraser, Marianne ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CADHERIN; CHORDIN; CLAUDIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NOGGIN; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN P300; RECEPTOR; RHO FACTOR; RNA; SEMAPHORIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UVOMORULIN; VASCULOTROPIN; WNT PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ECTODERM; EPIDERMIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NASA PROGRAM FUNDAMENTAL SPACE BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; MITOGENS; NEURAL CREST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142184265     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1219     Document Type: Article

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