Cerebral cortical neuron diversity and development at single-cell resolution

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-16

  Johnson, Matthew B ^a   Walsh, Christopher A ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MICROFLUIDICS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OUTER RADIAL GLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL MICROARRAY; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; NEURONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84998812131     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.11.001     Document Type: Review

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