The control of rostrocaudal pattern in the developing spinal cord: Specification of motor neuron subtype identity is initiated by signals from paraxial mesoderm

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 969-982

  Ensini, Monica ^a,b,d   Tsuchida, Tammy N ^a,e   Belting, Heinz Georg ^c,f   Jessell, Thomas M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell signalling; Chick; Mesoderm; Motor neurons; Neural tube; Positional identity; Quail

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; LOCOMOTION; MESODERM; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; QUAIL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

AVES; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031894361     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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