Chapter 4 Transcriptional Networks in the Early Development of Sensory-Motor Circuits

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 87, Issue , 2009, Pages 119-148

  Dasen, Jeremy S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIM KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; LIMB; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; EXTREMITIES; LIM KINASES; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NERVE NET; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 65449142849     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(09)01204-6     Document Type: Review

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