The prechordal region lacks neural inducing ability, but can confer anterior character to more posterior neuroepithelium

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2983-2996

  Foley, Ann C ^a   Storey, Kate G ^b   Stern, Claudio D ^a  

^a Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Forebrain; Hensen's node; Neural induction; Neural plate; Prechordal mesendoderm; Quail embryo; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MARKER GENE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHIMERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; QUAIL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHIMAERIFORMES; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0030750888     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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