Methods library · Organisms and the field
Tissue grafting and transplantation
Also called transplantation, organizer graft, heterotopic graft, Quail-chick chimeras
Moving tissue to a new place, time or host to ask whether its fate is fixed and what signals it sends or receives.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
24 lessons use this method.
Developmental Neuroscience
- Tools for Following Cells and Genes
- The Organizer: Spemann and Mangold
- Neural Induction: The Default Model
- Local Organizers: The Midbrain-Hindbrain Boundary
- Ventral to Dorsal: Sonic Hedgehog and BMP in the Neural Tube
- Mapping the Cortex: Areas and Arealization
- Asymmetric Division: Numb and the Neuroblast
- Birth Order and Fate: Temporal Identity and the Inside-Out Cortex
- Tangential Migration: Interneurons and the Long Way Round
- The Neural Crest: Cells That Leave Home
- Topographic Maps: Sperry's Eye and Eph Gradients
- Too Many Neurons: Naturally Occurring Cell Death
- The Neurotrophic Hypothesis Tested
- Competition: How a Target Picks Its Neurons
- Activity Before Experience: Spontaneous Retinal Waves
- Opening and Closing a Critical Period
- Myelination: Wrapping the Axon
- Injury and Regeneration: Why the Brain Does Not Regrow
- New Neurons in the Adult Brain
- What Makes the Human Brain Big
- Brains in a Dish: Stem Cells and Organoids