Slow axonal transport: Stop and go traffic in the axon

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-156

  Brown, Anthony ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOSKELETON; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 0034328871     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35040102     Document Type: Review

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