Requirement for the zebrafish mid-hindbrain boundary in midbrain polarisation, mapping and confinement of the retinotectal projection

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2967-2978

  Picker, Alexander ^a   Brennan, Caroline ^b   Reifers, Frank ^a   Clarke, Jonathan D W ^b   Holder, Nigel ^b   Brand, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acerebellar; Danio rerio; Engrailed; Eph family; Ephrin; Fgf; Fgf8; Hindbrain; Midbrain; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Organizer; Retina; Retinotectal map; Tectum; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENOTYPE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESENCEPHALON; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EPHRIN-A2; EPHRIN-A5; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032808087     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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