Alternative Splicing Controls Selective Trans-Synaptic Interactions of the Neuroligin-Neurexin Complex

Neuron

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-178

  Chih, Ben ^a   Gollan, Leora ^a   Scheiffele, Peter ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; MOLNEURO

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN; NEUREXIN 1ALPHA; NEUREXIN 1BETA; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 1; NEUROLIGIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33745994650     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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