Article
Convergent extension analysis in mouse whole embryo culture.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2012
Pryor Sophie E, Massa Valentina, Savery Dawn, Greene Nicholas D E, Copp Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
Mutations have been identified in a non-canonical Wnt signalling cascade (the planar cell polarity pathway) in several mouse genetic models of severe neural tube defects. In each of these models, neurulation fails to be initiated at the 3-4 somite stage, leading to an almost entirely open neural tube (termed craniorachischisis). Studies in whole embryo culture have identified a defect in the morphogenetic process...
Topics
- Animals
- Carbocyanines
- Cell Polarity
- Dissection
- Electroporation
- Embryo Culture Techniques
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Female
- Genetic Vectors
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Mice
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Neural Plate
- Neural Tube
- Neurulation
- Paraffin Embedding
- Phenotype
