Fate map of the chick embryo neural tube

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 145-165

  Garcia Lopez, Raquel ^a   Pombero, Ana ^a   Martinez, Salvador ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain; Chicken; Fate map; Neural plate; Neural tube

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CELL FATE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICK EMBRYO; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; FIMBRIA; FOREBRAIN; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH REGULATION; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; INFERIOR OLIVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC TECTUM; PONS ANGLE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRETECTUM; QUAIL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RETICULAR FORMATION; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEM CELL; TECTUM; TEGMENTUM; TELENCEPHALON; THYROID GLAND; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE NUCLEUS; VERTEBRATE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; NEURAL PLATE; NEURAL TUBE;

PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849326658     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01096.x     Document Type: Review

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