Signaling pathways regulating ectodermal cell fate choices.

Although embryonic patterning and early development of the nervous system have been studied for decades, our understanding of how signals instruct ectodermal derivatives to acquire specific identities has only recently started to form a coherent picture. In this mini-review, we summarize recent findings and models of how a handful of well-known secreted signals influence progenitor cells in successive binary decisions to adopt various cell type specific differentiation programs.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Experimental Cell Research

• Publication date

  2014-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.yexcr.2013.08.002PMID 23939346
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