Canonical wnt signaling is required for commissural axon guidance

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 190-208

  Avilés, Evelyn C ^a   Stoeckli, Esther T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chicken embryo; DI1 neurons; In ovo RNAi; Lrp5; Lrp6; PCP pathway

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; MORPHOGEN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CELL POLARITY; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE SILENCING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; AXON; CHICKEN; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; NEUROGENESIS; SPINAL CORD; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84953636461     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22307     Document Type: Article

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