Highly reproducible spatiotemporal patterns of mammalian embryonic movements at the developmental stage of the earliest spontaneous motility

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2697-2710

  Suzue, Toshihiko ^a   Shinoda, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryonic motility; Foetal movements; Mice; Neural activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MOVEMENT; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL MOVEMENT; HEAD; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0032865930     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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