Evidence for a role of SRGAP3 in the positioning of commissural axons within the ventrolateral funiculus of the mouse spinal cord

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bacon, Claire ^a   Endris, Volker ^a   Andermatt, Irwin ^b   Niederkofler, Vera ^b   Waltereit, Robert ^a   Bartsch, Dusan ^a   Stoeckli, Esther T ^b   Rappold, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR 1; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR 2; SLIT ROBO GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; ROBO2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SRGAP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPINAL NERVE; VENTROLATERAL FUNICULUS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BINDING; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 79957867123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019887     Document Type: Article

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