The embryonic origins of left-right asymmetry

Critical Reviews in Oral Biology and Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 197-206

  Levin, Michael ^a,b  

^a FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cilia; Developmental biology; Embryo; Ion transport; Left right asymmetry; Motor proteins

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MOTOR; MORPHOGEN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHIRALITY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GASTRULATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; ION CURRENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL POLARITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ION TRANSPORT; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; CILIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 4143144489     PISSN: 10454411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154411130401500403     Document Type: Review

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