Motor neurons and the generation of spinal motor neuron diversity

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Stifani, Nicolas ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Development; Lower motor neuron; Motor neurons; Spinal cord; Spinal motor neuron; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 2; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMMA MOTONEURON; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SPASTICITY;

EID: 84907802550     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00293     Document Type: Review

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