Global and local mechanisms of forebrain and midbrain patterning

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-12

  Rhinn, Muriel ^a   Picker, Alexander ^a   Brand, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; WNT1 PROTEIN;

CELL FATE; COMPREHENSION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; MESENCEPHALON; PROSENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 32344434488     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.01.005     Document Type: Review

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