Arms and the man: The problem of symmetric growth

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Wolpert, Lewis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; ESTROGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BONE GROWTH; EMBRYO GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARM; HORMONES; HUMANS;

EID: 77957910807     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000477     Document Type: Article

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