Common cues regulate neural and vascular patterning

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 332-336

  Jones, Christopher A ^a   Li, Dean Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA LIKE LIGAND 4 PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34547773697     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2007.07.004     Document Type: Review

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