Commitment of motoneuron progenitors of chick embryo along the anterior-posterior axis

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 106-111

  Tanaka, H ^a   Fukushima, M ^a   Ohta, K ^a   Kimura, Y ^a   Sudo, A ^b   Shirabe, K ^b   Takeshita, M ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior posterior axis; Cek8; Chick embryo; Commitment; Lateral motor column; Motoneuron; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Subpopulation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; LUMBAR SPINE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; THORACIC SPINE;

EID: 0031059836     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111193     Document Type: Article

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