The chick/quail transplantation model: Discovery of the isthmic organizer center

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-113

  Alvarado Mallart, Rosa Magda ^a,b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Chick quail chimeras; En2; Fgf8; Gbx2; Isthmic organizer; Mes metencephalon; MHB; Otx2

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHICKEN; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUAIL; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICKENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; QUAIL; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 23844514438     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2005.03.001     Document Type: Review

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