Erratum: The resilient synapse: Insights from genetic interference with synaptic cell adhesion molecules (Cell and Tissue Research DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0267-4);The resilient synapse: Insights from genetic interference of synaptic cell adhesion molecules

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 617-642

  Piechotta, Kerstin ^a   Dudanova, Irina ^a   Missler, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Knockout; Neurogenetics; Neurotransmission; Synaptic cell adhesion molecules; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CATENIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; L1 ADHESION MOLECULE; LAMININ; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; NECTIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN HSPG; PROTEIN SIDEKICK 1; PROTEIN SIDEKICK 2; PROTEIN SYG 1; PROTEIN SYG 2; PROTEIN SYNCAM 1; PROTEIN SYNCAM 3; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3A; SYNAPTIC ADHESION MOLECULE 1; SYNAPTIC ADHESION MOLECULE 2; SYNAPTIC ADHESION MOLECULE 3; SYNAPTIC ADHESION MOLECULE 4; SYNAPTIC ADHESION MOLECULE 5; SYNAPTIC CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURFACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

EID: 33748927823     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0327-9     Document Type: Erratum

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