The role of repulsive guidance molecules in the embryonic and adult vertebrate central nervous system

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1473, 2006, Pages 1513-1529

  Mueller, Bernhard K ^a   Yamashita, Toshihide ^b   Schaffar, Gregor ^a   Mueller, Reinhold ^a  

^a ABBOTT GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Iron metabolism; Neogenin; Regeneration; RGM; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; STROKE; VERTEBRATE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749013593     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1888     Document Type: Review

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