Publications

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  • Yimin Zou. Axons find their way in the snow. Development 2009 136:2135-2139. [PDF]
  • Elizabeth K. Davis, Yimin Zou, and Anirvan Ghosh. Wnts acting through canonical and noncanonical signaling pathways exert opposite effects on hippocampal synapse formation. Neural Development. 2008 3: 32 (5 November 2008). [PDF]
  • Yaobo Liu, Xiaofei Wang, Chin-Chun Lu, Rachel Sherman-Kermen, Oswald Stewart, Xiao-Ming Xu, and Yimin Zou. Repulsive Wnt signaling inhibits axon regeneration after CNS injury. Journal of Neuroscience. 2008 28(33): 8376-8382. [PDF]

  • Patricia C. Salinas and Yimin Zou. Wnt Signaling in Neural Circuit Assembly. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 2008 31: 339-358. [PDF]
  • Alex M. Wolf, Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Ali G. Fenstermaker, Beth Shafer, Charles G. Lo, and Yimin Zou. Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase­Atypical Protein Kinase C Signaling Is Required for Wnt Attraction and Anterior­Posterior Axon Guidance. Journal of Neuroscience. 2008 28: 3456-3467. [PDF]
  • Yimin Zou and Anya I. Lyuksyutova. Morphogens as conserved axon guidance cues. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2007 17: 22-28 [PDF]
  • Yimin Zou. Navigating the anterior-posterior axis with Wnts. Neuron. 2006. 49(6):787-9. [PDF]
  • Adam Schmitt, Jun Shi, Alex Wolf, Chin-Chun Lu, Leslie A. King and Yimin Zou.  Wnt-Ryk signaling mediates medial-lateral retinotectal topographic mapping. Nature. 2006. Jan 5. 439(7072):31-7. [PDF]

  • Lee Fradkin, Gian Garriga , Patricia C. Salinas, John Thomas, Xiang Yu and Yimin Zou.  Wnt signaling in neural circuit development (minireview). Journal of Neuroscience. 2005. 25(45):10376-10378. [PDF]
  • Yaobo Liu, Jun Shi, Chin-Chun Lu, Zheng Bei Wang, Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Xuejun Song and Yimin Zou. Ryk-mediated Wnt repulsion regulates posterior-directed growth of corticospinal tract. Nature Neuroscience. 2005 Sept. 8(9):1151-9. [PDF]

  • Yimin Zou.  Wnt signaling in axon guidance (review). Trends in Neuroscience. 2004. 27(9): 528-532.[PDF]
  • Yimin Zou, Florian Engert and Huizhong W. Tao. The Assembly of Neural Circuits (Meeting Report). Neuron. 2004. 43(2):159-163.[PDF]
  • Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Chin-Chun Lu, Nancy Milanesio, Leslie A. King, Nini Guo, Yanshu Wang, Jeremy Nathans, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Yimin Zou.   Anterior-posterior guidance of commissural axons by Wnt-frizzled signaling. Science. 2003. 302:1984-1988. [PDF]

  • Elke Stein, Yimin Zou, Mu-ming Poo, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne.  Netrin-1 binds DCC to stimulate axon outgrowth and turning independent of adenosine A2B receptor activation. Science. 2001. 291 (5510):1976-82.  [PDF]

  • Yimin Zou, Esther Stoeckli, Hang Chen, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne.  Squeezing axons out of the gray matter: A role for slit and semaphorin proteins from midline and ventral spinal cord.  Cell. 2000. 102:363-375.  [PDF]

  • Hang Chen, Anil Bagri, Joel A. Zupicich, Yimin Zou, Esther Stoeckli, Samuel J. Pleasure, Daniel H. Lowenstein, William C. Skarnes, Alain Chedotal, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne.  Neuropilin-2 regulates the development of select cranial and sensory nerves and hippocampal mossy fiber projections.  Neuron. 2000 Jan. 25(1):43-56. [PDF]