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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1246 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nn1108-1246

A master regulator of nociceptor differentiation

Annette Markus

Nervous system development is orchestrated by transcription factors acting in sequence and in networks. The effectors that actually execute the steps leading to early specification or later phenotypic maturation of developing neurons are largely unknown.