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Rmst is a novel marker for the mouse ventral mesencephalic floor plate and the anterior dorsal midline cells.

ABSTRACT: The availability of specific markers expressed in different regions of the developing nervous system provides a useful tool to illuminate their development, regulation and function. We have identified by expression profiling a putative non-coding RNA, Rmst, that exhibits prominent expression in the midbrain floor plate region, the isthmus and the roof plate of the anterior neural tube. At the developmental stage when the ventral dopaminergic neuron territory is being established, Rmst expression appears to be restricted to the presumptive dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area that lies close to the ventral midline. Thus this study presents Rmst as a novel marker for the developing dopaminergic neurons in the mesencephalic floor plate as well as a marker for the dorsal midline cells of the anterior neural tube and the isthmic organizer.

SUBMITTER: Uhde CW

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2799666 | biostudies-other | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Rmst is a novel marker for the mouse ventral mesencephalic floor plate and the anterior dorsal midline cells.

Uhde Christopher W CW Vives Joaquim J Jaeger Ines I Li Meng M

PloS one 20100108 1

The availability of specific markers expressed in different regions of the developing nervous system provides a useful tool to illuminate their development, regulation and function. We have identified by expression profiling a putative non-coding RNA, Rmst, that exhibits prominent expression in the midbrain floor plate region, the isthmus and the roof plate of the anterior neural tube. At the developmental stage when the ventral dopaminergic neuron territory is being established, Rmst expression ...[more]

PMID: 20062813

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