Pax-6 is required for thalamocortical pathway formation in fetal rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-160

  Kawano, Hitoshi ^a,b   Fukuda, Tetsuya ^a   Kubo, Kenichiro ^a   Horie, Masao ^b   Uyemura, Keiichi ^a   Takeuchi, Kosei ^c   Osumi, Noriko ^d,e   Eto, Kazuhiro ^e   Kawamura, Koki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; DiI; Immunohistochemistry; L1; Mutant; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CARBOCYANINE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033620601     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990531)408:2<147::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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