Analysis of mouse EphA knockins and knockouts suggests that retinal axons programme target cells to form ordered retinotopic maps

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2705-2717

  Willshaw, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EphA receptors; Induction; Knockin knockout; Quantitative model; Retinotopy

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A3; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EYE DOMINANCE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA NERVE CELL; SIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TARGET CELL; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746813026     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02430     Document Type: Article

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