Joanne Babiarz

TL;DR: The combined results indicate that Nr-CAM and L1 play a role in cerebellar granule cell development, and suggest that closely related molecules in the L1 family have overlapping functions.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that spatially restricted subpopulations of radial glia along the dorsal-ventral axis acquire different markers for neuronal or glial precursors during CNS development.

TL;DR: The assembly and deposition of small-diameter fibrils with a collagen composition and structure identical to that seen in the corneal stroma in the absence of proteoglycans typical of the secondary cornean stroma imply that although proteoglycan-collagen interactions may function in the establishment of interfibrillar spacing and lamellar organization, collagen-Collagen interactions are the major parameter in the regulation of fibril diameter.

TL;DR: Analysis of Fc fusion proteins representing different extracellular regions of NF indicate that NF186 inhibits cell adhesion and neurite outgrowth, and the inhibition is associated with the region containing the mucin-like domain.

TL;DR: A critical early role for axonal NF in clustering of Na+ channels at nodes of Ranvier via interactions with receptors on Schwann cells is suggested by analysis of effects of NF-Fc fusion proteins in Schwann cell-DRG neuron myelinating cocultures.