Promotion of proliferation in the developing cerebral cortex by EphA4 forward signaling

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2467-2476

  North, Hilary A ^a   Zhao, Xiumei ^a   Kolk, Sharon M ^a,b   Clifford, Meredith A ^a   Ziskind, Daniela M ^a,c   Donoghue, Maria J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticogenesis; Eph ephrin; Ephrin B1; Intercellular communication; Mouse; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN B1; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPHRIN-B1; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR, EPHA4; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 69649099297     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.034405     Document Type: Article

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