Dorsal telencephalon-specific RA-GEF-1 knockout mice develop heterotopic cortical mass and commissural fiber defect

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1994-2008

  Bilasy, Shymaa E ^a   Satoh, Takaya ^a   Ueda, Shuji ^a   Wei, Ping ^a   Kanemura, Hoshimi ^a   Aiba, Atsu ^a   Terashima, Toshio ^a   Kataoka, Tohru ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional knockout mice; Cortical heterotopia; Cortical malformations; Neural cell migration; Rap1

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SUBCORTICAL HETEROTOPIA; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURES;

EID: 65749112744     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06754.x     Document Type: Article

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