Making digit patterns in the vertebrate limb

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-53

  Tickle, Cheryll ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FINGER; GENE EXPRESSION; HAND; HUMAN; LIMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644842728     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1830     Document Type: Review

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