Paths, elongation, and projections of ascending chick embryonic spinal commissural neurons after crossing the floor plate

Brain Research

Volumn 1223, Issue , 2008, Pages 25-33

  Arakawa, Takahiro ^a   Iwashita, Misato ^b   Matsuzaki, Fumio ^b   Suzuki, Toshiharu ^a   Yamamoto, Tohru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chick; Electroporation; Spinal commissural neuron; Spinocerebellar tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CERVICAL SPINE; CHICK; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; SPINAL COMMISSURAL NEURON; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; SUPERIOR MEDULLARY VELUM; VENTRAL ROOT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBELLUM; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GROWTH CONES; NEURONS; ORGANOGENESIS; SPINAL CORD;

SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 47549106656     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.062     Document Type: Article

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