Postnatal growth of corticospinal axons in the spinal cord of developing mice

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-204

  Gianino, Scott ^a   Stein, Stuart A ^b,c   Li, Huaying ^a   Lu, Xiaobin ^a   Biesiada, Elzbieta ^b   Ulas, Jolanta ^b   Xu, Xiao Ming ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal outgrowth; Descending pathway; Development; Growth cone; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0033524792     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00168-0     Document Type: Article

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