... be involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 3 12 2010 © 2011. 2011 Midline defects Septo-optic dysplasia Adenohypophysis...

... of peripheral neurons and sensory cells,derivatives of the neural crest and placodal ectoderm. Here, in identifying the molecular nature of the pia mutation, we investigate the role of the zebrafish achaete-scute homologue ascl1a during development of the adenohypophysis, an endocrine derivative of the placodal...

... cell types. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 25 1 2005 ©2005. 2005 Adenohypophysis Anterior neural plate border Cell fate specification Cell lineage Distal-less Patched Smoothened Sonic hedgehog Ventral ectoderm Zebrafish The pituitary...

...Wiebke Herzog; Carmen Sonntag; Sophia von der Hardt; Henry H. Roehl; Zoltan M. Varga; Matthias Hammerschmidt The pituitary gland consists of two major parts: the neurohypophysis, which is of neural origin; and the adenohypophysis, which is of non-neural ectodermal origin. Development...

... adenohypophysis gastrulation prechordal plate anterior neural plate endoderm Rathke’s pouch mouse In recent years, the elucidation of the genetic program involved in vertebrate embryonic patterning has been initiated, in part, through the study of homeobox genes. These genes, originally identified...

..., the preoptic region of the hypothalamus, some hypothalamic ACTH-immunoreactive cells, and the most anterior portion of the adenohypophysis are all ventral neural ridge in origin. * Present address: Department of Biology, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa 52001, USA. (Fulbright Fellow.) 10 02 1986...