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Abnormal embryonic cerebellar development and patterning of postnatal foliation in two mouse Engrailed-2 mutants.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Mar 1994
Millen K J, Wurst W, Herrup K, Joyner A L
Abstract excerpt
The cerebellum is an ideal system to study pattern formation in the central nervous system because of its simple cytoarchitecture and regular organization of folds and neural circuitry. Engrailed-2 (En-2) is expressed in a spatially restricted broad band around the mesencephalic-metencephalic junction, a region from which the cerebellum is derived. Mice homozygous for a targeted deletion of the En-2 homeobox,...
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