Chicken primordial germ cells use the anterior vitelline veins to enter the embryonic circulation

Biology Open

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1146-1152

  De Melo Bernardo, Ana ^a   Sprenkels, Kaylee ^a   Rodrigues, Gabriela ^b   Noce, Toshiaki ^c   De Sousa Lopes, Susana M Chuva ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Embryo; Extraembryonic tissue; Migration; Primordial germ cells; Vasculatory system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964815272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20122592     Document Type: Article

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