Development of the brachial lateral motor column in the wingless mutant chick embryo: motoneuron survival under varying degrees of peripheral load

• Published in: Journal of comparative neurology (1911) Vol. 261; no. 3; p. 423
• Main Authors: Lanser, M E, Fallon, J F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 15.07.1987
• Subjects: Animals; Cell Count; Cell Survival; Chick Embryo - growth & development; Chickens - genetics; Motor Neurons; Muscles - embryology; Mutation; Spinal Cord - embryology; Wings, Animal - abnormalities; Wings, Animal - embryology; Wings, Animal - innervation

Survival of motoneurons in the lateral motor column (LMC) of the chick embryo is known to depend on the periphery. How this dependence relates to the normally occurring death of motoneurons is unknown. Analysis of the time course of LMC cell loss in the absence of varying amounts of limb musculature...