Who does the hair cell's 'do? Rho GTPases and hair-bundle morphogenesis

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 394-398

  Kollmar, Richard ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHO FACTOR;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; HAIR CELL; MECHANORECEPTOR; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0033178859     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)80059-2     Document Type: Article

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