title: Differentiation in vitro of neural precursor cells from normal and Pecanex mutant Drosophila embryos.
abstract: Early gastrula embryos, lacking both maternally and zygotically expressed activity of the neurogenic pecanex locus, are shown to contain a greater than wild-type number of stably determined neural precursor cells which can differentiate into neurons in culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Genetics and Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: LaBonne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Furst
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics*; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000166:cytology; D005775:Gastrula / Q000166:cytology; D009154:Mutation; D009420:Nervous System / Q000196:embryology; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D013045:Species Specificity