The midline glial cells are required for regionalization of commissural axons in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 402-409

  Stollewerk, Angelika ^a   Klämbt, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GLIA CELL; GROWTH CONE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; VENTRAL ROOT;

EID: 0344541988     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050129     Document Type: Article

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