Mechanisms of ventral patterning in the vertebrate nervous system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 103-114

  Lupo, Giuseppe ^a   Harris, William A ^a   Lewis, Katharine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN NODAL; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ASSOCIATION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EYE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TELENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31444436983     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1843     Document Type: Review

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