Recent advances in neural development.
A surprisingly small number of signalling pathways are used reiteratively during neural development, eliciting very different responses depending on the cellular context. Thus, the way a neural cell responds to a given signal is as important as the signal itself and this responsiveness, also called competence, changes with time. Here we describe recent advances in elucidating the signalling pathways that operate in brain development.
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK.
Clemens
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Kiecker
Andrew
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Lumsden