Lateral motor column axons execute a ternary trajectory choice between limb and body tissues

Neural Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Luria, Victor ^a   Laufer, Ed ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1; EPHRIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; LIM HOMEOBOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1 BETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZBTB16 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH CONE; INNERVATION; LIMB; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPHRINS; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH CONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34547967380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-2-13     Document Type: Article

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