Axon guidance by diffusible chemoattractants: A gradient of netrin protein in the developing spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 8866-8874

  Kennedy, Timothy E ^a,b   Wang, Hao ^a   Marshall, Wallace ^a   Tessier Lavigne, Marc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Commissure; Diffusion; Growth cone; Tropic; Tropism

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; MESSENGER RNA; NETRIN; NETRIN 1; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN NETRIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RATS; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 33748267684     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5191-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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