Breaking the neuronal sphere: Regulation of the actin cytoskeleton in neuritogenesis

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 694-704

  Da Silva, Jorge Santos ^a   Dotti, Carlos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ACTIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEURITE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; NEURITES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036719449     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn918     Document Type: Review

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