EphrinB3/EphA4-mediated guidance of ascending and descending spinal tracts

Neuron

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1407-1420

  Paixão, Sónia ^a   Balijepalli, Aarathi ^a   Serradj, Najet ^b   Niu, Jingwen ^c   Luo, Wenqin ^c   Martin, John H ^b   Klein, Rüdiger ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Germany 3 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN B3; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZIC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING SPINAL PROJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING SPINAL PROJECTION; DORSAL ROOT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

EID: 84890482195     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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