Cadherins in embryonic and neural morphogenesis

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-100

  Tepass, Ulrich ^a   Truong, Kevin ^a   Godt, Dorothea ^a   Ikura, Mitsuhiko ^a   Peifer, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0034331032     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35040042     Document Type: Review

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