Correlation between tectum formation and expression of two PAX family genes, PAX7 and PAX6, in avian brains

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 485-495

  Nomura, Tadashi ^a   Kawakami, Atsushi ^a   Fujisawa, Hajime ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floor plate; Heterotopic transplantation; PAX6; PAX7; Tectum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; FOWL; GENE EXPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031664881     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1998.t01-3-00003.x     Document Type: Article

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