Neurofibromin is required for barrel formation in the mouse somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1580-1587

  Lush, Mark E ^a,b   Li, Yun ^a   Kwon, Chang Hyuk ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Parada, Luis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional mutant; Development; hGFAP Cre; NF1; Ras GAP; Thalamocortical axons

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROFIBROMIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL LINE; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; MICE; NEUROFIBROMIN 1; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 39549117358     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5236-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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