The two mature transcripts of the chick calcitonin gene are expressed within the central nervous system during embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-84

  Terrado, José ^a   Gerrikagoitia, Inma ^b   Raldúa, Demetrio ^a   Sorribas, Víctor ^a   Martínez Millán, Luis ^b   Sarasa, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

C cell; Calcitonin; Calcitonin gene related peptide; Central nervous system; Chick embryo; Early development; Embryogenesis; Floor plate; Gene expression; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization histochemistry; Inner ear; Otic primordium; Rhombencephalon; RNA splicing; Thyroid gland; Ultimobranchial gland

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOTONEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032171062     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00129-4     Document Type: Article

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