Transcriptional regulation of guidance at the midline and in motor circuits

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 419-432

  Zarin, Aref Arzan ^a   Asadzadeh, Jamshid ^a   Labrador, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Commissural neuron; Motoneuron; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELL SPECIFICITY; DORSAL MOTONEURON; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; LATERAL MOTOR COLUMN; MEDIAL MOTOR COLUMN; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PHRENIC MOTOR COLUMN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL ACCESSORY MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84892829405     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1434-x     Document Type: Review

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