Specific Drosophila Dscam juxtamembrane variants control dendritic elaboration and axonal arborization

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6723-6728

  Shi, Lei ^a   Yu, Hung Hsiang ^a   Yang, Jacob S ^a   Lee, Tzumin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Dendrite; Down syndrome; Drosophila; Protein targeting; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AXONS; DENDRITES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34250822252     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1517-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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