Chapter 5 Hox Genes in Neural Patterning and Circuit Formation in the Mouse Hindbrain

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2009, Pages 139-167

  Narita, Yuichi ^a,b   Rijli, Filippo M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

EID: 67749113255     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(09)88005-8     Document Type: Review

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