The morphogenetic role of midline mesendoderm and ectoderm in the development of the forebrain and the midbrain of the mouse embryo

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1799-1813

  Camus, Anne ^a   Davidson, Bruce P ^a   Billiards, Saraid ^a   Khoo, Poh Lynn ^a   Rivera Pérez, Jaime A ^b   Wakamiya, Maki ^b   Behringer, Richard R ^b   Tam, Patrick P L ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse; Neurulation; Patterning activity; Prechordal plate; Regionalisation; Ventral diencephalon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULA; MESENCEPHALON; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAC OPERON; MESENCEPHALON; MESODERM; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034106165     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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