Article
Netrin-1 and DCC mediate axon guidance locally at the optic disc: loss of function leads to optic nerve hypoplasia.
Neuron - 1 Sept 1997
Deiner M S, Kennedy T E, Fazeli A, Serafini T, Tessier-Lavigne M, Sretavan D W
Abstract excerpt
Embryonic retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons must extend toward and grow through the optic disc to exit the eye into the optic nerve. In the embryonic mouse eye, we found that immunoreactivity for the axon guidance molecule netrin-1 was specifically on neuroepithelial cells at the disk surrounding...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Axons
- Binding, Competitive
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal
- DCC Receptor
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mutation
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Netrin-1
- Neurites
- Optic Nerve