Enteric nervous system development: Recent progress and future challenges

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-69

  Laranjeira, Cátia ^a   Pachnis, Vassilis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN RET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10;

BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GLIA CELL; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FORECASTING; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSECTS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PERISTALSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 70349969557     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2009.09.001     Document Type: Review

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