The importance of combinatorial gene expression in early mammalian thalamic patterning and thalamocortical axonal guidance

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Price, David J ^a   Clegg, James ^a   Duocastella, Xavier Oliver ^a   Willshaw, David ^a   Pratt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Cortex; Guidance molecule; Pioneer axon; Thalamo cortical axon; Thalamus; Transcription factor; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN; HEPARAN SULFATE; NETRIN 1; NEUROGENIN 2; SEMAPHORIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATLAS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; COMBINATORIAL GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; INNERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SUBPALLIUM; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMOCORTICAL AXON; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS PATTERNING; VENTRAL TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 84862239079     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00037     Document Type: Review

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