Patterning the cerebral cortex: Traveling with morphogens

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 408-415

  Borello, Ugo ^a   Pierani, Alessandra ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MICE; NEUROGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954959805     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2010.05.003     Document Type: Review

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