Switching retinogeniculate axon laterality leads to normal targeting but abnormal eye-specific segregation that is activity dependent

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 14855-14863

  Rebsam, Alexandra ^a   Petros, Timothy J ^a,b   Mason, Carol A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIBATIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EYE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENICULATE BODIES; GROWTH CONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PYRIDINES; RECEPTOR, EPHB1; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 72449188132     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3462-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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