Origin, Early Patterning, and Fate of the Mouse Epiblast

Handbook of Stem Cells

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 129-142

  Camus, Anne ^a   Perea Gomez, Aitana ^a   Collignon, Jérôme ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012436643-5/50020-1     Document Type: Chapter

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