Patterning signals acting in the spinal cord override the organizing activity of the isthmus

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 41-53

  Grapin Botton, Anne ^a   Cambronero, Francisco ^b   Weiner, Howard L ^a   Bonnin, Marie Ange ^a   Puelles, Luis ^b   Le Douarin, Nicole M ^a  

^a Institut d'Embryologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire du CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chick; fgf8; Hindbrain; Homeobox; Hox genes; Induction; Isthmus; Spinal cord; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN STEM; CHICK EMBRYO; CHIMERA; COTURNIX; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0032780717     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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