Transcriptional control of early tract formation in the embryonic chick midbrain

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1785-1793

  Schubert, Frank R ^a,b   Lumsden, Andrew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early axon scaffold; Emx2; Medial longitudinal fascicle; Mesencephalon; Pax6; Posterior commissure; Sax1; Six3; Tegmentum

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SAX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINAL CORD; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; ELECTROPORATION; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18844409112     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01731     Document Type: Article

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