The origin and specification of cortical interneurons

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 687-696

  Wonders, Carl P ^a   Anderson, Stewart A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALRETININ; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 33747614577     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1954     Document Type: Review

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