Disruption of early events in thalamocortical tract formation in mice lacking the transcription factors Pax6 or Foxg1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 8523-8531

  Pratt, Thomas ^a   Quinn, Jane C ^a   Simpson, T Ian ^a   West, John D ^a   Mason, John O ^a   Price, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Chimera; Diencephalon; Foxg1; Mouse; Optic tract; Pax6; Thalamocortical tract; Tract tracing; Transcription factor; Transient thalamic afferents; Ventral telencephalon

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0036813067     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-19-08523.2002     Document Type: Article

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