A role for tectal midline gila in the unilateral containment of retinocollicular axons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8344-8355

  Wu, Da Yu ^a,c   Schneider, Gerald E ^a   Silver, Jerry ^b   Poston, Michael ^b   Jhaveri, Sonal ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon barrier; Axon guidance; Brain compartmentalization; GFAP; Midline septum; Radial glia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; GLIA; HEAT INJURY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

EID: 0032531846     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08344.1998     Document Type: Article

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