Transmembrane agrin regulates filopodia in rat hippocampal neurons in culture

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-28

  McCroskery, Seumas ^a   Chaudhry, Amal ^a   Lin, Lin ^a   Daniels, Mathew P ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; PROTEIN CDC42; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FILOPODIUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; PSEUDOPODIA; RATS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33747877384     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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