From cells to organs: Building polarized tissue

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 887-901

  Bryant, David M ^a   Mostov, Keith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN;

CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL POLARITY; CELLS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ORGANOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 54549091120     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2523     Document Type: Review

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