Isthmus-to-midbrain transformation in the absence of midbrain-hindbrain organizer activity

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 6611-6623

  Jászai, József ^a,b   Reifers, Frank ^a,b   Picker, Alexander ^a,b   Langenberg, Tobias ^a,b   Brand, Michael ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ace; Acerebellar; Bead implantation; Cerebellum; D. rerio; Fgf8; Hindbrain; Isthmus rhombencephali; Lineage analysis; MHB; Midbrain; Modularity; Patterning; Plasticity; Rhombomere 1; Rostralization; Transformation; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NEUROMODULIN; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL DEATH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; MUTATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0347135605     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00899     Document Type: Article

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