Patterning a complex organ: Branching morphogenesis and nephron segmentation in kidney development

Developmental Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 698-712

  Costantini, Frank ^a   Kopan, Raphael ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN RET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; WNT PROTEIN;

BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CELL VACUOLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETER;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FISHES; KIDNEY; MAMMALS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEPHRONS; URETER;

EID: 77952946956     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.04.008     Document Type: Review

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