Evidence that descending cortical axons are essential for thalamocortical axons to cross the pallial-subpallial boundary in the embryonic forebrain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Yijing ^a   Magnani, Dario ^a   Theil, Thomas ^a   Pratt, Thomas ^a   Price, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AXON; EFFERENT NERVE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PALLIAL SUBPALLIAL BOUNDARY; THALAMOCORTICAL AXON; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THALAMUS;

APC PROTEIN;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; THALAMUS;

EID: 84863230173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033105     Document Type: Article

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