Bmp activity establishes a gradient of positional information throughout the entire neural plate

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4977-4987

  Barth, K Anukampa ^a   Kishimoto, Yasuyuki ^b   Rohr, Klaus B ^a   Seydler, Catrin ^b,c   Schulte Merker, Stefan ^b,c   Wilson, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Artemis Pharmaceuticals GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone morphogenic protein; Dorsoventral patterning; Neural plate; Somitabun; Swirl; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; INTERNEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DIENCEPHALON; ECTODERM; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROSENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0033405806     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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