Crossing the embryonic midline: Molecular mechanisms regulating axon responsiveness at an intermediate target

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 377-389

  Neuhaus Follini, Alexandra ^a   Bashaw, Greg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 12; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B; CALPAIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYCLOPAMINE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE DISSOCIATION INHIBITOR; NEOGENIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NETRIN 1; NEUROPILIN 2; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PLEXIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SEMAPHORIN; SLIT PROTEIN; SLIT2 PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

AXON RESPONSIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMISSURAL AXON; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; MRNA EXPRESSION ASSAY; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; AXON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; COMMISSURAL INTERNEURON; EMBRYOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; COMMISSURAL INTERNEURONS; CUES; DROSOPHILA; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS;

EID: 84930345170     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.185     Document Type: Review

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