Synaptic development: insights from Drosophila

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-42

  Collins, Catherine A ^a   DiAntonio, Aaron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT1 PROTEIN;

DROSOPHILA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; LARVA; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33846854871     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.01.001     Document Type: Review

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