Tyrosinase is a new marker for cell populations in the mouse neural tube

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 445-456

  Tief, Kirsten ^a   Schmidt, Andrea ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^b   Beermann, Friedrich ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain development; Neural crest; Neural tube; Neuroectoderm; Pigmentation; Transgenic Mice; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CRANIAL NERVES; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; LAC OPERON; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029874967     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199604)205:4<445::AID-AJA8>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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