Role of the floor plate in axonal patterning in the zebrafish CNS.

doi:10.1016/0896-6273(92)90027-b

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Role of the floor plate in axonal patterning in the zebrafish CNS.

Neuron - 1 Oct 1992

Hatta K

Abstract excerpt

To determine the role of the floor plate (FP) in CNS development, I have used labeling techniques, including immunolabeling, to analyze cyclops mutant embryos, which lack the FP. Except for the anterior brain, the mutant phenotype is almost exclusively confined to the vicinity of the ventral CNS...

Topics

Animals
Axonal Transport
Axons
Brain
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Gene Deletion
Genes, Recessive
Heterozygote
Microscopy, Electron
Mosaicism
Motor Neurons
Mutation
Neurons
Phenotype
Spinal Cord
Zebrafish

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