Planar cell polarity-mediated induction of neural stem cell expansion during axolotl spinal cord regeneration

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue NOVEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Albors, Aida Rodrigo ^a,b,c   Tazaki, Akira ^a,b,c   Rost, Fabian ^c   Nowoshilow, Sergej ^a,b,c   Chara, Osvaldo ^c,d   Tanaka, Elly M ^a,b,c  

^a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM CELL; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; STEM CELL EXPANSION; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION;

EID: 84958160100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10230     Document Type: Article

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