Screening for genes that wire the cerebral cortex

BMC Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lokmane, Ludmilla ^a,b,c   Garel, Sonia ^a,b,c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE; MUTATION; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; THALAMUS;

EID: 78650995170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-9-1     Document Type: Note

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