Embryonic motor activity and implications for regulating motoneuron axonal pathfinding in zebrafish

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1080-1096

  Menelaou, Evdokia ^a   Husbands, Erin E ^a   Pollet, Robin G ^a   Coutts, Christopher A ^b   Ali, Declan W ^b   Svoboda, Kurt R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axon; Motoneuron; Rohon Beard; Sensory neurons; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TRICAINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; TACTILE STIMULATION; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINOBENZOIC ACIDS; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 51649094103     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06418.x     Document Type: Article

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