Balancing of ephrin/Eph forward and reverse signaling as the driving force of adaptive topographic mapping

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 335-345

  Gebhardt, Christoph ^a   Bastmeyer, Martin ^a   Weth, Franco ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Bidirectional signaling; Chick; Ephrin Eph; Growth cone; Retinotectal; Topographic map

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCULATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; GROWTH CONE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; TECTUM; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPHRINS; GROWTH CONES; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECTUM MESENCEPHALI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 83755206359     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.070474     Document Type: Article

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