Rauber's Sickle and not the Caudal Marginal Zone Induces a Primitive Streak, Blood Vessels, Blood Cell Formation and Coelomic Vesicles in Avian Blastoderms

European Journal of Morphology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 275-282

  Callebaut, M ^a   Van Nueten, E ^a   Harrisson, F ^a   Bortier, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Avian blastoderm; Blood(vessel) and coelom formation; Caudal marginal zone; Positional information; Primitive streak; Rauber's sickle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; BLOOD VESSEL; CAUDAL MARGINAL ZONE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; CHIMERA; COELOMIC VESICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FOWL; HEMATOPOIESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RAUBER SICKLE BLASTODERM;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTODERM; CELL LINEAGE; CHICKENS; CHIMERA; COTURNIX; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0842348928     PISSN: 09243860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ejom.40.5.275.28906     Document Type: Article

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