Establishment of a ventral cell fate in the spinal cord

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 552-562

  Moghadam, Kaveh S ^a   Chen, Aileen ^a,b   Heathcote, R David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopaminergic neurons; Floor plate; Neural plate; Neurulation; Notochord; Primary neurons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GASTRULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MESODERM; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DOPAMINE; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESODERM; NEURONS; NOTOCHORD; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA;

EID: 0041633727     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10340     Document Type: Article

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