A mouse serine/threonine kinase homologous to C. elegans UNC51 functions in parallel fiber formation of cerebellar granule neurons

Neuron

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 833-846

  Tomoda, Toshifumi ^a   Bhatt, Rupal S ^a   Kuroyanagi, Hidehito ^b   Shirasawa, Takuji ^b   Hatten, Mary E ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; GRANULE CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033377776     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81031-4     Document Type: Article

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