Morphogens as conserved axon guidance cues

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-28

  Zou, Yimin ^a   Lyuksyutova, Anna I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; NETRIN 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CHICK EMBRYO; DROSOPHILA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CUES; GROWTH CONES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 33846908277     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.01.006     Document Type: Review

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