Migration of zebrafish spinal motor nerves into the periphery requires multiple myotome-derived cues

Developmental Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 241-256

  Zeller, Jörg ^a,d   Schneider, Valerie ^a   Malayaman, Saniniuj ^a   Higashijima, Shin Ichi ^b   Okamoto, Hitoshi ^b   Gui, Jianfang ^c   Lin, Shuo ^c   Granato, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Rinat Neuroscience Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaxial cells; Axon guidance; Migration; Motor axon; Neural development; Spinal cord; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); FISH GENETICS; GENETIC CODE; MAMMAL; MYOTOME; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; ZEBRA FISH;

AVES; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036932948     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0852     Document Type: Article

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