Building a second brain in the bowel

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 899-907

  Avetisyan, Marina ^a   Schill, Ellen Merrick ^a   Heuckeroth, Robert O ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALRETININ; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN RET; RETINOID; SEROTONIN; SUBSTANCE P; RET PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON; CONSTIPATION; DEATH; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; INNERVATION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; NEURAL CREST; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RETINOIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84924056136     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI76307     Document Type: Review

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