Signaling meets chromatin during tissue regeneration in Drosophila

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 485-489

  Maurange, Cédric ^a   Lee, Nara ^b   Paro, Renato ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PCG; PROTEIN TRXG; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33748419116     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2006.08.007     Document Type: Review

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