Locus coeruleus neurons originate in alar rhombomere 1 and migrate into the basal plate: Studies in chick and mouse embryos

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 496, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 802-818

  Aroca, Pilar ^a   Lorente Cánovas, Beatriz ^a   Mateos, Francisco R ^a   Puelles, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Dbh; Fate map; Isthmus; Noradrenergic cells; Pax7; Phox2a; Rnx3

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PHOX2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PHOX2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CHICKEN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC MARKER; LOCUS CERULEUS; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEUROMERE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICK EMBRYO; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROEPITHELIAL CELLS; NEURONS; PAX7 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; QUAIL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33646514646     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20957     Document Type: Article

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