RA-GEF-1 (Rapgef2) is essential for proper development of the midline commissures

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 200-209

  Bilasy, Shymaa E ^a,b   Satoh, Takaya ^a   Terashima, Toshio ^a   Kataoka, Tohru ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anterior commissure; Conditional knockout mice; Corpus callosum; Guanine nucleotide exchange factor; Midline glia; Rap1

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; PEROXIDASE; PROTEIN RA GEF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREGNANCY; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 80053219470     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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