Optic tectum morphogenesis: A step-by-step model based on the temporal-spatial organization of the cell proliferation. Significance of deterministic and stochastic components subsumed in the spatial organization

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1043-1061

  Rapacioli, Melina ^a   Duarte, Santiago ^b   Rodríguez Celín, Alejandra ^a   Fiore, Luciano ^b   Teruel, Luisa ^b   Scicolone, Gabriel ^b   Sánchez, Viviana ^b   Flores, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Developing CNS; Mitotic cell organization; Morphogenesis; Nonlinear analyses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; EMBRYO; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALIC ISTHMUS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICK EMBRYO; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROEPITHELIAL CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84861196978     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23785     Document Type: Article

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