Slits are chemorepellents endogenous to hypothalamus and steer thalamocortical axons into ventral telencephalon

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Braisted, Janet E ^a   Ringstedt, Thomas ^a,b   O'Leary, Dennis D M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Axon inhibition; Dorsal thalamus; Hypothalamus; Internal capsule; Neocortex; Robos

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; SLIT PROTEIN, VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS;

EID: 69449102804     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp035     Document Type: Article

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