Photic inhibition of TrkB/Ras activity in the pigeon's tectum during development: Impact on brain asymmetry formation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2180-2186

  Manns, Martina ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Heumann, Rolf ^a   Blöchl, Andrea ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Lateralization; Tectofugal pathway; Visual plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EFFERENT NERVE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLUMBIDAE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 27844599215     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04410.x     Document Type: Article

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