Out FOXing Parkinson disease: Where development meets neurodegeneration

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2785-2787

  Wexler, Eric M ^a   Geschwind, Daniel H ^b  

^a Program in Neurobehavioral Genetics

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 38549156140     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050334     Document Type: Short Survey

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