Analysis of early human neural crest development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 578-592

  Betters, Erin ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Kjaeldgaard, Anders ^b   Sundström, Erik ^c,d   García Castro, Martín I ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Div of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Sweden)

^c Stockholms Sjukhem Foundation   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AP 2 ; DRG; Enteric nervous system; Human embryogenesis; Neural crest; Neural crest gene regulatory network; P75NTR; Pax3 7; Sox9 10; Vertebrate embryos

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL LABELING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955280205     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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