Patterning and axon guidance of cranial motor neurons

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 859-871

  Guthrie, Sarah ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BRAIN STEM; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CRANIAL NERVE; DYSINNERVATION DISORDER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDING; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; HEAD MOVEMENT; HOX GENE; HOX3 GENE; HOXA2 GENE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NECK; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPEECH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; CRANIAL NERVES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS;

EID: 35548945282     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2254     Document Type: Review

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