“…Interestingly, perisomatic interneurons show high HNK-1 carbohydrate immunoreactivity (Yamamoto et al, 1988;Ren et al, 1994;Weber et al, 1999). The HNK-1 carbohydrate, a 3¢-sulphated glucuronic acid recognized by a monoclonal antibody (Abo & Balch, 1981), is expressed by many adhesion molecules (Kruse et al, 1984), including those of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily, such as the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) (Kruse et al, 1984), P0 (Voshol et al, 1996), L1 (Faissner, 1987) and F3/F11/contactin (Gennarini et al, 1990), as well as integrins (Pesheva et al, 1987), proteoglycans (Gowda et al, 1989Xiao et al, 1997) and the extracellular matrix glycoproteins tenascin-C and tenascin-R (Kruse et al, 1985).…”