Branching morphogenesis: From cells to organs and back

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ochoa Espinosa, Amanda ^a   Affolter, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KIDNEY; LUNG; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRACHEA; UDDER;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; KIDNEY; LUNG; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; TRACHEA;

EID: 84866166896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008243     Document Type: Article

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