System to identify individual somites and their derivatives in the developing mouse embryo

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 216-226

  Spörle, Ralf ^a   Schughart, Klaus ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TRANSGENE S A   (France)

Author keywords

Myogenic factors; Myotome; Paraxial mesoderm; Pax genes; Sclerotome; Spinal ganglia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL GANGLION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTOME; SOMITE;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC MARKERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SOMITES; STELLATE GANGLION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842364972     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199711)210:3<216::AID-AJA3>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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