Profiling, bioinformatic, and functional data on the developing olfactory/GnRH system reveal cellular and molecular pathways essential for this process and potentially relevant for the Kallmann syndrome

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Garaffo, Giulia ^a   Provero, Paolo ^a   Molineris, Ivan ^a   Pinciroli, Patrizia ^b,e   Peano, Clelia ^c   Battaglia, Cristina ^b,c   Tomaiuolo, Daniela ^a   Etzion, Talya ^d   Gothilf, Yoav ^d   Santoro, Massimo ^a   Merlo, Giorgio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disease gene prediction; Extracellular matrix; GnRH neuron; Kallmann syndrome; Olfactory development; Transcription profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892179446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00203     Document Type: Article

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