ERβ may contribute to the maintaining of radial glia cells polarity through cadherins during corticogenesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 974-976

  Xu, Pei ^a   Guo, Liang ^a   Tang, Xiaotong ^a   Xu, Haiwei ^a   Fan, Xiaotang ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RADIAL GLIAL CELL;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL POLARITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGLIA;

MUS;

EID: 80755140621     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.08.023     Document Type: Article

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