Hindbrain floor plate of the rat: Ultrastructural changes occurring during development

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 615-626

  Del Brio, Ma Angeles ^a   Riera, Pedro ^a   Peruzzo, Bruno ^b   Rodríguez, Esteban M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Floor plate; Immunocytochemistry; Lectin binding; Rat; Subcommissural organ; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; FLOORS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RATS;

DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES; FLOOR PLATES; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LECTIN BINDING; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUMS; SPINAL-CORD; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; TEMPORAL CHANGE; ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIBODIES;

CONCANAVALIN A; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DEATH; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LECTIN BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN;

EID: 0035281624     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20010301)52:5<615::AID-JEMT1045>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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