Touch and go: Guidance cues signal to the growth cone cytoskeleton

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 521-526

  Kalil, Katherine ^a   Dent, Erik W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; EPHRIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NETRIN 1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SEMA 3A; SLIT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CYTOSKELETON; FILOPODIUM; GROWTH CONE; GROWTH REGULATION; LAMELLIPODIUM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; GROWTH CONES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE REGENERATION;

EID: 25844431756     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.08.005     Document Type: Review

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