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An essential role for Frizzled5 in neuronal survival in the parafascicular nucleus of the thalamus.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 28 May 2008
Liu Chunqiao, Wang Yanshu, Smallwood Philip M, Nathans Jeremy
Abstract excerpt
Frizzled5 (Fz5), a putative Wnt receptor, is expressed in the retina, hypothalamus, and the parafascicular nucleus (PFN) of the thalamus. By constructing Fz5 alleles in which beta-galactosidase replaces Fz5 or in which Cre-mediated recombination replaces Fz5 with alkaline phosphatase, we observe that Fz5 is required continuously and in a cell autonomous manner for the survival of adult PFN neurons, but is not...
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