Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstem

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 252-263

  Erzurumlu, Reha S ^a   Murakami, Yasunori ^b   Rijli, Filippo M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; FACE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; FACE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; NEURONS; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77949875727     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2804     Document Type: Review

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