Hedgehog signalling in the embryonic mouse thymus

Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Barbarulo, Alessandro ^a   Lau, Ching In ^a   Mengrelis, Konstantinos ^a   Ross, Susan ^a   Solanki, Anisha ^a   Saldaña, José Ignacio ^a   Crompton, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gli1; Gli2; Gli3; Hedgehog; Ihh; Shh; T cell development; Thymic epithelial cell (TEC); Thymus

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041738087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22213759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jdb4030022     Document Type: Review

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