Interaction between axons and specific populations of surrounding cells is indispensable for collateral formation in the mammillary system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Szabó, Nora Emöke ^a,c   Zhao, Tianyu ^a,d   Çankaya, Murat ^b   Stoykova, Anastassia ^a   Zhou, Xunlei ^a,e   Alvarez Bolado, Gonzalo ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b ERZINCAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOXB1 GENE; GBX2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LRP6 GENE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PAX6 GENE; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY;

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMALS; AXONS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMILLARY BODIES; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 79956327231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020315     Document Type: Article

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