Robo1 and Robo2 cooperate to control the guidance of major axonal tracts in the mammalian forebrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3395-3407

  López Bendito, Guillermina ^a   Flames, Nuria ^a,g   Ma, Le ^b,f   Fouquet, Coralie ^c,d   Di Meglio, Thomas ^c,d   Chedotal, Alain ^c,d   Tessier Lavigne, Marc ^b,e   Marín, Oscar ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Cortex; Midline; Repulsion; Robo; Slit; Thalamocortical

Indexed keywords

ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT2 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RNA, MESSENGER; THALAMUS;

EID: 34047138896     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4605-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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