Specification and connectivity of neuronal subtypes in the sensory lineage

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 114-127

  Marmigère, Frédéric ^a   Ernfors, Patrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT;

EID: 33846447430     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2057     Document Type: Review

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