bHLH Factors in Neurogenesis and Neuronal Subtype Specification

Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience: Patterning and Cell Type Specification in the Developing CNS and PNS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 333-354

  Lai, H C ^a   Meredith, D M ^a   Johnson, J E ^a  

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

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397265-1.00065-4     Document Type: Chapter

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