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Assay for Neural Induction in the Chick Embryo
Published on: February 13, 2009
[Neurulation and interkinetic nuclear migration in the chick embryo (author's transl)]
Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology
|October 1, 1975
Abstract:
Neurulation and interkinetic nuclear migration was studied in cells of the forming neural tube of chick embryos submitted to a variety of treatments. Our results show that cytochalasin B (5 mug/ml) does not protect microtubules against disruption occurring after 3 h at 2 degrees C nor does it prevent their repolymerization once they are cold-disrupted. However, db-cAMP protects microtubules against such cold disruption. We indicate that the inhibitory effect of cytochalasin B on interkinetic nuclear migration cannot be ascribed to an effect on microtubules.
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