The origin and development of glial cells in peripheral nerves

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 671-682

  Jessen, Kristjan R ^a   Mirsky, Rhona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CADHERIN; CADHERIN 19; CALVASCULIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KROX 20; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DOWN REGULATION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE GROWTH; NEURAL CREST CELL; ORGANOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SATELLITE CELL; SCHWANN CELL; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; NEURAL CREST; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; NEURAL CREST; NEUROGLIA; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCHWANN CELLS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 25144470229     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1746     Document Type: Review

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