Synapse Specificity: Wnts Keep Motor Axons on Target

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Cecilia S ^a   Van Vactor, David ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNAPSES; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 35348859597     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.029     Document Type: Short Survey

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