Agrin inhibits neurite outgrowth but promotes attachment of embryonic motor and sensory neurons

Developmental Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-35

  Chang, David ^a   Woo, J Susie ^a   Campanelli, James ^b   Scheller, Richard H ^c   Ignatius, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; GROWTH INHIBITOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0031043462     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8435     Document Type: Article

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