Connexin 43 controls the multipolar phase of neuronal migration to the cerebral cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 8280-8285

  Liu, Xiuxin ^a,b   Sun, Lin ^a,c   Torii, Masaaki ^a   Rakic, Pasko ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c THE SECOND HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Embryonic neocortex; Intermediate zone; Radial migration

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; ION CHANNEL; PROTEIN P27;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; UPREGULATION; VENTRICULAR ZONE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P27; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; ION CHANNELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 84861427277     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205880109     Document Type: Article

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