The Pax protein Noi is required for commissural axon pathway formation in the rostral forebrain

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2397-2408

  Macdonald, Rachel ^a   Scholes, John ^b   Strähle, Uwe ^d   Brennan, Caroline ^a   Holder, Nigel ^a   Brand, Michael ^c   Wilson, Stephen W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Axon; CNS; Commissural axon; Forebrain; Glial cell; Noi; Pax; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GLIA CELL; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOROID; COLOBOMA; DIENCEPHALON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EYE; GANGLIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEINS; RETINA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0030762576     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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