Potential Role of Pax-2 in Retinal Axon Navigation through the Chick Optic Nerve Stalk and Optic Chiasm

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-23

  Thanos, Solon ^a   Püttmann, Sylvia ^b   Naskar, Rita ^a   Rose, Karin ^a   Langkamp Flock, Mechthild ^a   Paulus, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal guidance; Chiasm development; Fluorescent tracers; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MAMMAL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAINING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CARBOCYANINES; CELL COUNT; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 1642411477     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20001     Document Type: Article

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