Diversity in mammalian chiasmatic architecture: Ipsilateral axons are deflected at glial arches in the prechiasmatic optic nerve of the eutherian Tupaia belangeri

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 508, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-457

  Knabe, Wolfgang ^a,b   Washausen, Stefan ^a   Happel, Nicole ^a   Kuhn, Hans Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Department of Anatomy and Embryology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Glial guidepost cells; Optic decussation; Placental mammals; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCANDENTIA; TUPAIA BELANGERI; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; TUPAIA; VIMENTIN;

EID: 42449155883     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21694     Document Type: Article

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