Midline governs axon pathfinding by coordinating expression of two major guidance systems

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1165-1170

  Liu, Qing Xin ^a,b   Hiramoto, Masaki ^a   Ueda, Hitoshi ^a,c   Gojobori, Takashi ^b,d   Hiromi, Yasushi ^a,d   Hirose, Susumu ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Frazzled; Midline; Robo; Slit

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FRAZZLED; REGULATOR PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; T BOX PROTEIN MIDLINE; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; MIDLINE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NERVE PROTEIN; NETRIN RECEPTORS; SLI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MID GENE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 66149107110     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1774209     Document Type: Article

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