ARIA: A neuromuscular junction neuregulin

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue , 1997, Pages 429-458

  Fischbach, Gerald D ^a   Rosen, Kenneth M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUREGULINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION;

EID: 0031059146     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.20.1.429     Document Type: Review

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