Signaling mechanisms controlling cell fate and embryonic patterning

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Perrimon, Norbert ^a,b   Pitsouli, Chrysoula ^a,c   Shilo, Ben Zion ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERINACEIDAE;

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84865646610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a005975     Document Type: Article

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