Rab GTPases and their roles in brain neurons and glia

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 236-246

  Ng, Ee Ling ^a   Tang, Bor Luen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Endocytosis; Glia; Neuron; Rab; Synapse

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; RAB PROTEIN; RAB11 PROTEIN; RAB13 PROTEIN; RAB2 PROTEIN; RAB22B PROTEIN; RAB22C PROTEIN; RAB23 PROTEIN; RAB3 PROTEIN; RAB31 PROTEIN; RAB40C PROTEIN; RAB5 PROTEIN; RAB6 PROTEIN; RAB7 PROTEIN; RAB8 PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN;

BRAIN NERVE CELL; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; GLIA; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURITE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 45549098629     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2008.04.006     Document Type: Review

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