Publication Date:
1998-12-04
Description:
Cortical neurons communicate with various cortical and subcortical targets by way of stereotyped axon projections through the white matter. Slice overlay experiments indicate that the initial growth of cortical axons toward the white matter is regulated by a diffusible chemorepulsive signal localized near the marginal zone. Semaphorin III is a major component of this diffusible signal, and cortical neurons transduce this signal by way of the neuropilin-1 receptor. These observations indicate that semaphorin-neuropilin interactions play a critical role in the initial patterning of projections in the developing cortex.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Polleux, F -- Giger, R J -- Ginty, D D -- Kolodkin, A L -- Ghosh, A -- NS35165/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS36176/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS534814/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 4;282(5395):1904-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9836643" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Axons/*physiology
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Cell Line
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Cerebral Cortex/*cytology/embryology
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Coculture Techniques
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Gene Targeting
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Glycoproteins/genetics/*physiology
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Humans
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Mice
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Nerve Growth Factors/*metabolism
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/*physiology
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Neurons, Efferent/cytology/*physiology
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Neuropilin-1
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Rats
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Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
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Semaphorin-3A
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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