Unique and combinatorial functions of Fgf3 and Fgf8 during zebrafish forebrain development

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 4337-4349

  Walshe, Jennifer ^a   Mason, Ivor ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commissure; Diencephalon; FGF; Forebrain; Telencephalon; Thalamus; Zebrafish; Zona limitans intrathalamica

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; VISUAL SYSTEM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0141502072     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00660     Document Type: Article

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