Radial Glia, the Keystone of the Development of the Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 131-141

  Xu, Le ^a   Tang, Xiaotong ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Xu, Haiwei ^a   Fan, Xiaotang ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Development; Morphogenesis; Radial glial cells

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DENTATE GYRUS; GLIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROGLIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84897365249     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: 15591182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-014-8692-y     Document Type: Review

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