Model Organisms Inform the Search for the Genes and Developmental Pathology Underlying Malformations of the Human Hindbrain

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 155-163

  Aldinger, Kimberly A ^a   Elsen, Gina E ^a   Prince, Victoria E ^a,b   Millen, Kathleen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PONS; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

EID: 70349191471     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2009.06.003     Document Type: Review

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