Diversity of Contralateral Commissural Projections in the Embryonic Rodent Spinal Cord

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 472, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-422

  Kadison, Stephanie Rebecca ^a   Kaprielian, Zaven ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon pathfinding; Axon trajectory; Floor plate; Open book; Ventral midline

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CARBOCYANINES; CELL COUNT; COLORING AGENTS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREGNANCY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 1942516954     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20086     Document Type: Article

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