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Species specificity in the responsiveness of chick embryo neural tube explants to target-conditioned medium
1Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610.
Brain Research
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Explants from the metencephalic region of 40-h chick embryo neural tubes containing the trigeminal (V) motor nucleus were cultured in appropriate target muscle-conditioned media (MCM) derived from chick, quail and rat embryos. Enhanced neuritic outgrowth was found only in the presence of chick MCM, indicating that this early, initial responsiveness to target-released materials within this system is species-specific.