Left-right asymmetry in gut development: What happens next?

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1026-1037

  Burn, Sally F ^a   Hill, Robert E ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SITUS INVERSUS; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESENTERY; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PANCREAS; SITUS INVERSUS; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 70349529877     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900056     Document Type: Review

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