Axon guidance: GTPase help axons reach their targets

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages

  Gallo, Gianluca ^a   Letourneau, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CULTURE; DENDRITE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROBLASTOMA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DENDRITES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROBLASTOMA; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032576771     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70051-x     Document Type: Article

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