Thalamocortical pathfinding defects precede degeneration of the reticular thalamic nucleus in polysialic acid-deficient mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1302-1312

  Schiff, Miriam ^a,b,c   Röckle, Iris ^a   Burkhardt, Hannelore ^a   Weinhold, Birgit ^a   Hildebrandt, Herbert ^a,b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYSIALIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOPAMINE; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURONS; SIALIC ACIDS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS;

EID: 79251587453     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5609-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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