Origin and specification of the neural tube floor plate: Insights from the chick and zebrafish

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-30

  Le Douarin, Nicole M ^a   Halpern, Marnie E ^b  

^a Institut d'Embryologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire du CNRS   (France)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

CHICK EMBRYO; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOTOCHORD; PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0034132007     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00062-8     Document Type: Note

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