Functions and mechanisms of retrograde neurotrophin signalling

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 615-625

  Zweifel, Larry S ^a   Kuruvilla, Rejji ^b   Ginty, David D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE C; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; DENDRITE; ENDOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 23044515099     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1727     Document Type: Review

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