Article
A novel type of programmed neuronal death in the cervical spinal cord of the chick embryo.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Jun 1996
Yaginuma H, Tomita M, Takashita N, McKay S E, Cardwell C, Yin Q W, Oppenheim R W
Abstract excerpt
We examined the massive early cell death that occurs in the ventral horn of the cervical spinal cord of the chick embryo between embryonic days 4 and 5 (E4 and E5). Studies with immunohistochemical, in situ hybridization, and retrograde-tracing methods revealed that many dying cells express Islet...
Topics
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Axons
- Biomarkers
- Cell Differentiation
- Chick Embryo
- Chickens
- Curare
- Cycloheximide
- DNA
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Dactinomycin
- Deoxyuracil Nucleotides
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate
- Homeodomain Proteins
- LIM-Homeodomain Proteins
- Latex