PlexinA3 restricts spinal exit points and branching of trunk motor nerves in embryonic zebrafish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 4978-4983

  Feldner, Julia ^b,e   Reimer, Michell M ^a   Schweitzer, Jörn ^c   Wendik, Björn ^c   Meyer, Dirk ^d   Becker, Thomas ^a,e   Becker, Catherina G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Neuropilin; Pioneer axons; Primary motor neurons; Semaphorin; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; PLEXIN; PLEXIN A3; SEMAPHORIN 3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; AXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 34247860937     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1132-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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