The Activin signaling pathway promotes differentiation of dI3 interneurons in the spinal neural tube

Developmental Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Timmer, John ^a,d   Chesnutt, Catherine ^b   Niswander, Lee ^a,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin signaling; BMP signaling; Neural development; TGF

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL;

EID: 24144441733     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.05.039     Document Type: Article

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