Functional equivalency between Otx2 and Otx1 in development of the rostral head

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 743-757

  Suda, Yoko ^a   Nakabayashi, Jun ^a,b   Matsuo, Isao ^a   Aizawa, Shinichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain regionalization; Cephalic neural crest cells; Head organizer; Homeobox; Isthmus; Knock in; Mouse; Otx1; Otx2; Rostral brain induction; Visceral endoderm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HEAD; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033046171     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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