nervous system
• developing embryos have aberrant projections of sensory afferents in the spinal cord
• significant numbers of aberrant projections from the dorsal funiculus to the dorsal horn are evident at E12.5 compared to virtually none in the wild-type controls
• the number of aberrant projections increase at E13.5 and again at E14.5 and remain at least 4-fold higher than controls
• by E14.5 the aberrant projections are also greater in length than controls with projections sometimes almost reaching the midline
• number of aberrant projections is more than what is observed in homozgyotes for L1cam null alleles
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• developing embryos have aberrant projections of sensory afferents from the dorsal funiculus to the dorsal horn
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• dorsal root ganglion cells are not repulsed by the presence of ventral spinal cord explants in the manner that wild-type controls are
• in culture, E13.5 sensory axons are refractory to repulsion mediated by Semaphorin-3A
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