Neural tube closure in the chick embryo is multiphasic

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-318

  Van Straaten, Henny W M ^a   Janssen, Hennie C J P ^a   Peeters, Marian C E ^a   Copp, Andrew J ^b   Hekking, Johan W M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chick; Closure rate; Embryo; Morphology; Morphometry; Neuropore; Neurulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOMITE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0029861185     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199611)207:3<309::AID-AJA8>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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