The local differentiation of myelinated axons at nodes of ranvier

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 968-980

  Poliak, Sebastian ^a   Peles, Elior ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CELL CONTACT; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0345690096     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1253     Document Type: Review

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