Gene regulatory logic for reading the sonic hedgehog signaling gradient in the vertebrate neural tube

Cell

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 273-284

  Balaskas, Nikolaos ^a,c   Ribeiro, Ana ^a   Panovska, Jasmina ^b   Dessaud, Eric ^a   Sasai, Noriaki ^a   Page, Karen M ^b   Briscoe, James ^a   Ribes, Vanessa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYSTERESIS; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856094426     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.047     Document Type: Article

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