The effects of early prenatal monocular enucleation on the routing of uncrossed retinofugal axons and the cellular environment at the chiasm of mouse embryos

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3225-3235

  Chan, S O ^a   Chung, K Y ^a   Taylor, J S H ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Giia; Midline; Retinofugal pathway

Indexed keywords

STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO; ENUCLEATION; EYE; FERRET; GLIA; MONOCULAR VISION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; DIENCEPHALON; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PREGNANCY; RETINA; TISSUE FIXATION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032873386     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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