Slit-Robo signals regulate pioneer axon pathfinding of the tract of the postoptic commissure in the mammalian forebrain

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1531-1541

  Ricaño Cornejo, Itzel ^a   Altick, Amy L ^b   García Peña, Claudia M ^a   Nural, Hikmet Feyza ^b   Echevarría, Diego ^c   Miquelajáuregui, Amaya ^a   Mastick, Grant S ^b   Varela Echavarría, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axonal growth; Axonal projections; Brain development; Calbindin; Knockout mouse

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR 1; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR 2; SLIT PROTEIN; SLIT2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGENESIS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79961211406     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22684     Document Type: Article

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