GFRα-4, a new GDNF family receptor

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 117-126

  Thompson, Jane ^a   Doxakis, Epaminondas ^a   Piñón, Luzia G P ^a   Strachan, Philip ^a   Buj Bello, Anna ^a,b   Wyatt, Sean ^a   Buchman, Vladimir L ^a   Davies, Alun M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; AVIAN PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GFR RECEPTOR ALPHA 4, GALLUS GALLUS; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RET ONCOGENE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CHICKEN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PURKINJE CELL; ANIMAL; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031595679     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1998.0682     Document Type: Article

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