Publications

  • Yimin Zou. Does planar cell polarity signaling steer growth cones? Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2012;101:141-60  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Edmund Hollis II and Yimin Zou. Reinduced Wnt signaling limits regenerative potential of sensory axons in the spinal cord following conditioning lesion.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 4;109(36):14663-8  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Edmund Hollis II and Yimin Zou. Expression of the Wnt signaling system in central nervous system axon guidance and regenerationFront Mol Neurosci. 2012;5:5  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Yimin Zou. When it is hard to get to with genetics--planar cell polarity under a chemical scalpel.Chem Biol. 2011 Nov 23;18(11):1350-1.  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Beth Shafer, Keisuke Onishi, Charles Lo, Gulsen Colakoglu, and Yimin Zou. Vangl2 Promotes Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity-like Signaling by Antagonizing Dvl1-Mediated Feedback Inhibition in Growth Cone Guidance. Developmental Cell. 15 February 2011 20(2): 177-191.  

    • Ali G. Fenstermaker, Asheeta A. Prasad, Ahmad Bechara, Youri Adolfs, Fadel Tissir, Andre Goffinet, Yimin Zou, and R. Jeroen Pasterkamp. Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity Signaling Controls the Anterior-Posterior Organization of Monoaminergic Axons in the Brainstem. Journal of Neuroscience. 2010 30(47):16053-16064  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Barry J. Dickson and Yimin Zou. Navigating Intermediate Targets: The Nervous System Midline. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 2010 Aug 1;2(8):a002055. Epub 2010 Jun 9. (doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002055) pdf icon [PDF]

    • Liseth M. Parra and Yimin Zou. Sonic hedgehog induces response of commissural axons to Semaphorin repulsion during midline crossing. Nature Neuroscience 2010 13: 29-35 (doi:10.1038/nn.2457). pdf icon [PDF]

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    • Yimin Zou. Axons find their way in the snow. Development 2009 136:2135-2139.  pdf icon [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 icon [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 icon [PDF]

    • Patricia C. Salinas and Yimin Zou. Wnt Signaling in Neural Circuit Assembly. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 2008 31: 339-358.  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Alex M. Wolf, Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Ali G. Fenstermaker, Beth Shafer, Charles G. Lo, and Yimin Zou. Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase-Atypical Protein Kinase C Signaling Is Required for Wnt Attraction and Anterior-Posterior Axon Guidance. Journal of Neuroscience. 2008 28: 3456-3467.  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Yimin Zou and Anya I. Lyuksyutova. Morphogens as conserved axon guidance cues. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2007 17: 22-28  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Yimin Zou. Navigating the anterior-posterior axis with Wnts. Neuron. 2006. 49(6):787-9.  pdf icon [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 icon [PDF]



      pdf icon News & Views Article About Schmitt et al. 2006

    • 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 icon [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 icon [PDF]



      pdf icon News & Views Article About Liu et al. 2006

    • Yimin Zou.  Wnt signaling in axon guidance (review). Trends in Neuroscience. 2004. 27(9): 528-532.  pdf icon [PDF]

    • Yimin Zou, Florian Engert and Huizhong W. Tao. The Assembly of Neural Circuits (Meeting Report). Neuron. 2004. 43(2):159-163.  pdf icon [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 icon [PDF]



      pdf icon News & Views Article About Lyuksyutova et al. 2003

    • 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 icon [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 icon [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 icon [PDF]