The Kidney and Planar Cell Polarity

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 185-212

  Carroll, Thomas J ^a   Yu, Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell intercalation; Kidney; Oriented cell division; Planar cell polarity; Primary cilium; Tubular repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868640939     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394592-1.00011-9     Document Type: Chapter

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