Grainy Head and Its Target Genes in Epithelial Morphogenesis and Wound Healing

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-63

  Wang, Shenqiu ^a,b   Samakovlis, Christos ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Epithelia; Grainy head; Neuroblast; Regeneration; Tubulogenesis; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863029675     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-386499-4.00002-1     Document Type: Chapter

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