Genes that Control the Size of the Cerebral Cortex

Cortical Development: Genes and Genetic Abnormalities

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 79-90

  Chae, Teresa H ^a,b   Walsh, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal spindle like microcephaly (ASPM); Apical lateral cell surface; Cell fate determinants; Ganglion mother cell (GMC); Genes controlling cortical size; Mitotic spindle orientation; Neural progenitor proliferation and differentiation; SNARE mediated vesicle trafficking and intracellular membrane fusion; Symmetric and asymmetric cell divisions; Vertebrate nervous system

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949274109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470994030.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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