FGF8 acts as a classic diffusible morphogen to pattern the neocortex

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3439-3448

  Toyoda, Reiko ^a   Assimacopoulos, Stavroula ^a   Wilcoxon, Jennifer ^a   Taylor, Albert ^a   Feldman, Polina ^a   Suzuki Hirano, Asuka ^b   Shimogori, Tomomi ^b   Grove, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Area specification; FGF17; FGF8; Mouse; Neocortex; Patterning

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MORPHOGEN; FGF8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; STEM CELL; TELENCEPHALON; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BODY PATTERNING; ELECTROPORATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOCORTEX; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 77957653464     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.055392     Document Type: Article

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