Convergent inductive signals specify midbrain, hindbrain, and spinal cord identity in Gastrula stage chick embryos

Neuron

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 689-702

  Muhr, Jonas ^a   Graziano, Enrique ^a   Wilson, Sara ^a   Jessell, Thomas M ^b   Edlund, Thomas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RETINOID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; ECTODERM; GASTRULA; MESENCEPHALON; MESODERM; NERVE CELL; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033179939     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)80028-3     Document Type: Article

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