Assembly and tissue functions of early embryonic laminins and netrins

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 572-579

  Yurchenco, Peter D ^a   Wadsworth, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

E; EB; ECM; embryoid body; embryonic day; extracellular matrix; GBM; glomerular basement membrane; ICM; inner cell mass; Lu; Lutheran; Reichert's membrane; RM

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; NETRIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LAMININ; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES;

ARACHNIDA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444285946     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2004.07.013     Document Type: Review

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