title: [An in toto study of the cholinesterase activity in the visceral cranium of the mouse embryo].
abstract: In toto analysis of cholinesterase activity in the cephalic extremity of 9- to 14-day old mouse embryo permits to define four different stages. Stage 1 corresponds to activity in the cephalic neural crest-derived cells. Stage 2 is characterized by activity in the proximal part of both first branchial arches and in the oculomotor blastemata. Stage 3 corresponds to a decrease of the activity, which appears in the area of fusion of several facial processes. Stage 4 corresponds to activity in nervous and muscular blastemata. Cholinesterase activity is thus chronologically varying and implies several differentiating cell populations.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Anatomie et Embryologie Humaines, Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quetstroey
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Louryan
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coutelier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002802:Cholinesterases / Q000378:metabolism*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000196:embryology* / Q000201:enzymology*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D002802:Cholinesterases
vernacular_title: Etude in toto de l'activité cholinestérase dans le viscérocrâne de l'embryon de souris.