From genes to neural tube defects (NTDs): Insights from multiscale computational modeling

HFSP Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 142-152

  Wayne Brodland, G ^a   Chen, Xiaoguang ^a   Lee, Paul ^a   Marsden, Mungo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMPHIBIA;

EID: 80052161510     PISSN: 19552068     EISSN: 1955205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2976/1.3338713     Document Type: Article

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