Upper urinary tract pacemaker cells join the GLI club

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 836-838

  Herzlinger, Doris ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3;

BLADDER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PALLISTER HALL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; URINARY TRACT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PALLISTER-HALL SYNDROME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 79952208697     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI46400     Document Type: Note

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