The Cardiac Neural Crest and Their Role in Development and Disease

Neural Crest Cells: Evolution, Development and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 205-229

  Vincentz, Joshua W ^a   Firulli, Anthony B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell differentiation; Cell specification; Congenital heart defects; Heart development; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902424526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-401730-6.00012-0     Document Type: Chapter

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