Development of the anterior commissure in the opossum: Midline extracellular space and glia coincide with early axon decussation

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 403-414

  Cummings, D M ^a   Malun, D ^b   Brunjes, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

anterior commissure; axonal pathfinding; extracellular space; glia; Monodelphis domestics

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGLIA; OPOSSUMS; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 0030901652     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199704)32:4<403::AID-NEU4>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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