Mechanisms controlling the guidance of thalamocortical axons through the embryonic forebrain

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1573-1585

  Molnár, Zoltán ^a   Garel, Sonia ^b,c,d   López Bendito, Guillermina ^e   Maness, Patricia ^f   Price, David J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corridor cells; Handshake hypothesis; Perireticular thalamic nucleus; Subplate neurons; Thalamocortical projections; Ventral thalamus

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEUROGENIN 2; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR 1; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR 2; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GBX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CORRIDOR CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIENCEPHALON; FOREBRAIN; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS REPULSIVE ACTIVITY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; POSTMITOTIC NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBPALLIUM; SUBTHALAMUS; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMOCORTICAL AXON; THALAMOCORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TELENCHEPHALON;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; THALAMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84862094846     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08119.x     Document Type: Article

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