Neural tube morphogenesis

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 507-512

  Spörle, Ralf ^a   Schughart, Klaus ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TRANSGENE S A   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INVERTEBRATE; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0343329864     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80078-0     Document Type: Article

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