Molecular tunnels and boundaries for growing axons in the anterior commissure of hamster embryos

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 399, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 176-188

  Pires Neto, Mário A ^a   Braga De Souza, Suzana ^a   Lent, Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Axonal pathfinding; Cerebral cortex; Corpus callosum; Development; Extracellular matrix

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN SULFATE; FIBRONECTIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LAMININ; TENASCIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EMBRYO; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PREGNANCY; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; TENASCIN;

EID: 0032556048     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980921)399:2<176::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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