Brain regionalization: Of signaling centers and boundaries

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 218-233

  Cavodeassi, Florencia ^a   Houart, Corinne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; CNS; Fate specification; Local organizers; Morphogens; Neural plate; Pattern formation; Signaling centers

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; EPHRIN A2; EPHRIN B2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MORPHOGEN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 1; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR NEURAL BORDER; ANTERIOR NEURAL RIDGE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL FATE; CELL MANIPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; DROSOPHILA; ENDOCYTOSIS; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCYTOSIS; TRANSLOCATION LINE; VERTEBRATE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84856974611     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20938     Document Type: Article

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