Early (E12) cortical progenitors can change their fate upon heterotopic transplantation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1375-1383

  Gaillard, Afsaneh ^a   Nasarre, Cécile ^a   Roger, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Corticogenesis; Neurotransplantation; Rat; S1 barrel; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; GENICULATE BODIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; RATS; SILVER STAINING; THALAMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0037691872     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02576.x     Document Type: Article

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