PUBLICATION

Establishing the plane of symmetry for lumen formation and bilateral brain formation in the zebrafish neural rod

Authors
Buckley, C., Clarke, J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-140513-163
Date
2014
Source
Seminars in cell & developmental biology   31C: 100-105 (Review)
Registered Authors
Clarke, Jon
Keywords
Cell division, Centrosome, Neural tube, Zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Brain/cytology
  • Brain/embryology*
  • Cell Polarity
  • Neural Tube/cytology
  • Neural Tube/embryology*
  • Zebrafish
PubMed
24721474 Full text @ Sem. Cell Dev. Biol.
Abstract
The lumen of the zebrafish neural tube develops precisely at the midline of the solid neural rod primordium. This process depends on cell polarisation and cell rearrangements, both of which are manifest at the midline of the neural rod. The result of this cell polarisation and cell rearrangement is an epithelial tube that has overt mirror-symmetry, such that cell morphology and apicobasal polarisation are mirrored across the midline of the neural tube. This article discusses how this mirror-symmetry is established and proposes the hypothesis that positioning the cells' centrosomes to the midline of the neural rod is a key event in organising this process.
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