Palatal seam disintegration: To die or not to die? That is no longer the question

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2643-2656

  Nawshad, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EMT; Medial epithelial seam; Palate; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL JUNCTION; CELL KINETICS; CELL LINEAGE; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; CYTOLOGY; DESMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPITHELIUM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETICS; KINETICS; MESENCHYME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PALATE; PALATOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; MESODERM; PALATE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 54549125814     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21599     Document Type: Review

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