Abnormalities of floor plate, notochord and somite differentiation in the loop-tail (LP) mouse: A model of severe neural tube defects

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-72

  Greene, Nicholas D E ^a   Gerrelli, Dianne ^a   Van Straaten, Henny W M ^b   Copp, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Floor plate; Lp Lp embryo; Neural tube

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NOTOCHORD; SOMITES;

EID: 0031979611     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00029-X     Document Type: Article

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