Glycans and neural cell interactions

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 195-208

  Kleene, Ralf ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FATTY ACID; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; SIALIC ACID; SPHINGOSINE; XYLOSE;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 1342310622     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1349     Document Type: Review

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