Mechanisms of axon ensheathment and myelin growth

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 683-690

  Sherman, Diane L ^a   Brophy, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CONTACT; CELL INTERACTION; EVOLUTION; GLIA CELL; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; MYELINATION; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; THICKNESS; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GLIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 25144469422     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1743     Document Type: Review

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