Cellular commitment in the developing cerebellum

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 1-26

  Marzban, Hassan ^a   Del Bigio, Marc R ^a   Alizadeh, Javad ^a   Ghavami, Saeid ^a   Zachariah, Robby M ^a   Rastegar, Mojgan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Autophagy; Brain development; Cerebellum structure; DNA methylation; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; MICRORNA;

APOPTOSIS; AUTISM; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBELLUM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

EID: 84920997616     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00450     Document Type: Review

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