Retinal axon misrouting at the optic chiasm in mice with neural tube closure defects

Genesis

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-47

  Rachel, Rivka A ^a   Murdoch, Jennifer N ^c   Beermann, Friedrich ^d   Copp, Andrew J ^c   Mason, Carol A ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Circletail; Loop tail; Neural tube defect; Optic chiasm; Pax3; Retinal axons; Splotch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GLIA; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OPTIC CHIASM; PHENOTYPE; PROSENCEPHALON; RETINA;

EID: 0033926356     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1526-968X(200005)27:1<32::AID-GENE50>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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