Development of spinal cord projections from neocortical transplants heterotopically placed in the neocortex of newborn hosts is highly dependent on the embryonic locus of origin of the graft

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 365, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 129-140

  Ebrahimi Gaillard, Afsaneh ^a   Roger, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

corticospinal projection; neocortical differentiation; neurotransplantation; protomap; rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CELL LABELING; EMBRYO; FETUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FRONTAL LOBE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030045623     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960129)365:1<129::AID-CNE10>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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