Neural induction: Old problem, new findings, yet more questions

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2007-2021

  Stern, Claudio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ECTODERM; EPIDERMIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; QUAIL; SALAMANDRIDAE; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 19744364989     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01794     Document Type: Review

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