“…As OECs continue to differentiate during fetal stages of development, they begin to express the L14 lectin (Mahanthappa et al, 1994) and the O4 antigenic epitope (Doucette and Devon, 1994;Franceschini and Barnett, 1996). The L14 lectin binds to molecules containing polylactosamine chains (Zhou and Cummings, 1993;Cooper et al, 1991) and was shown by Mahanthappa et al (1994) to promote the adhesion of primary olfactory neurons to laminin in vitro in an integrin-independent manner. The O4 mouse monoclonal antibody (Sommer and Schachner, 1981) recognizes a cell surface epitope that is also expressed by glial cells in the O 2 A lineage (Gard and Pfeiffer, 1989;Trotter and Schachner, 1989) and by Schwann cells (Mirsky et al, 1990;Morgan et al, 1991).…”