Molecular mechanisms of inner ear development

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Doris K ^a   Kelley, Matthew W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INNER EAR; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; EAR, INNER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84865620131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008409     Document Type: Article

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