Development of signals influencing the growth and termination of thalamocortical axons in organotypic culture

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 363-393

  Molnár, Zoltán ^a,b   Blakemore, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

'stop signal'; Axon guidance; Cerebellum; Chemospecificity; Cortex; Hippocampus; Organotypic culture; Permissiveness; Rat; Thalamus; Trophic factors

Indexed keywords

GROWTH PROMOTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMISPHERE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032936644     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7032     Document Type: Article

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