The floor plate of the hindbrain is a highly specialized gland. Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural characteristics

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-168

  Rodríguez, Esteban M ^a   Angeles Del Brío León, Maria ^b   Riera, Pedro ^b   Menendez, Jaime ^b   Schoebitz, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flexural organ; Floor plate; Immunocytochemistry; Serotonergic neurons; Subcommissural organ

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEROTONIN; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN;

EID: 0030599602     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(96)00113-7     Document Type: Article

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