Mechanisms of Thyroid Development and Dysgenesis: An Analysis Based on Developmental Stages and Concurrent Embryonic Anatomy

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 106, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-170

  Nilsson, Mikael ^a   Fagman, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Development; Dysgenesis; Embryonic; Endoderm; Foregut; Growth; Migration; Morphogenesis; Organogenesis; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT; DYSGENESIS; EMBRYONIC; ENDODERM; FOREGUT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MIGRATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROID GLAND;

DEVELOPMENT; DYSGENESIS; EMBRYONIC; ENDODERM; FOREGUT; GROWTH; MIGRATION; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; THYROID;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUTATION; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 84888805501     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416021-7.00004-3     Document Type: Chapter

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