Aberrant axonal projections from mammillary bodies in Pax6 mutant mice: Possible roles of Netrin-1 and Slit 2 inmammillary projections

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1620-1633

  Tsuchiya, Reiko ^a   Takahashi, Kaoru ^a   Liu, Fu Chin ^b   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; In utero electroporation; Mammillary bodies; Pax6

Indexed keywords

NETRIN 1; SLIT2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMILLARY BODY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHEMOTAXIS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAMILLARY BODIES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; THALAMUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 65849278540     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21966     Document Type: Article

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