Drosophila Rac1 controls motor axon guidance

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 453-461

  Kaufmann, Nancy ^a   Wills, Zachary P ^a   Van Vactor, David ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Drac1; Drosophila; Motor axon; Muscle; Nerve; Rac1

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH CONE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL MOVEMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOCHALASIN D; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031913612     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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