Cortico-cerebral histogenesis in the opossum Monodelphis domestica: Generation of a hexalaminar neocortex in the absence of a basal proliferative compartment

Neural Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Puzzolo, Elisa ^a   Mallamaci, Antonello ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BROXURIDINE; EOMES PROTEIN, MOUSE; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; OPOSSUM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; ELECTROPORATION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MONODELPHIS; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 77952297215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-5-8     Document Type: Article

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