Signalling and crosstalk of Rho GTPases in mediating axon guidance

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-45

  Yuan, Xiao Bing ^a   Jin, Ming ^a   Xu, Xiaohua ^a   Song, Yuan Quan ^a   Wu, Chien Ping ^a   Poo, Mu Ming ^a,b   Duan, Shumin ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MYOSIN; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHO KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; FILOPODIUM; GROWTH CONE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; KINETICS; NEURITES; NEURONS; PSEUDOPODIA; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037223854     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb895     Document Type: Review

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