Genetic Approaches to Developmental Neurobiology

I. Early Development of Mammals.- Patterns of Cell Proliferation in the Preimplantation Mammalian Embryo.- The Analysis of Cell Lineages in the Postimplantation Mammalian Embryo.- Early Stages of Fertilization in vitro of Rabbit, Pig, Cattle and Human Eggs.- Early Development of Mouse Embryos Fertilized in vitro.- In vitro Culture of Human Follicular Oocytes.- II. Genetics of Mammalian Embryos.- Molecular Insight to the Mechanisms of Cell Adhesion in Relation with Early Mammalian Morphogenesis.- Genetic Influences on Teratocarcinogenesis in Mice.- Phenotypical Expression in Nude ? Normal Chimeric Mice.- Search for Transplantation Method Facilitating Establishment of Normal Diploid Teratocarcinomas from "Resistant" C57BL Mice.- The Use of Chimeric Rats in the Analysis of the Hooded Pigmentation Pattern.- Quail-Chick Chimeras, a Tool to Study the Development of the Peripheral Nervous System.- III. Mammalian Mutants.- Examples of Neuromuscular Mutations in the Mouse: Opportunities for an Understanding of Pathological Processes.- A Study of Myelin Deficiency in the Central Nervous System of Mice with Genetic Muscular Dystrophy.- Neurochemical Abnormalities of Snell Dwarf Mutant Mice.- Characteristics of a New Allele of Tottering Locus, Rolling (tgrol).- Analysis of CNS Development with Mutant Mice and Chimeras.- Immunohistochemical and Biochemical Analyses of Development of Nervous System of Mutant Mice (Reeler and Shiverer).- Mutations Affecting Myelination: Dynamics of CNS Myelin Markers in Normal and Dysmyelinating Mutant Mice.- Studies on Genetic Control of Myelinogenesis in Tissue Culture from Rat and Mouse Cerebella.- General Comments.