GAP-43 mediates retinal axon interaction with lateral diencephalon cells during optic tract formation

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 969-980

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Lu, Cynthia ^a   Severin, Christophe ^a   Sretavan, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; GAP 43; Growth cone; Mouse; Optic chiasm; Optic tract; Retinal ganglion cell

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EYE DEVELOPMENT; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DIENCEPHALON; EXONS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURITES; NEURONS; OPTIC CHIASM; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034027426     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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