meander tail acts intrinsic to granule cell precursors to disrupt cerebellar development: Analysis of meander tail chimeric mice

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4201-4212

  Hamre, Kristin M ^a   Goldowitz, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Chimera; meander tail; Neurological mutant mice; Purkinje cell; Radial glial cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CHIMERA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; GLIA CELL; GRANULE CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GLOBINS; GOLGI APPARATUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROGLIA; PURKINJE CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; EPICOCCUM; MURINAE;

EID: 0030708868     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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