The origin and evolution of synapses

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 701-712

  Ryan, Tomás J ^a,b   Grant, Seth G N ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CYTOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VERTEBRATE; BEHAVIOR; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AGRIN; AMPA RECEPTOR; ANKYRIN; CADHERIN; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALMODULIN; CALPAIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 61; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GUANYLATE CYCLASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUREXIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RAF PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

EID: 70349269034     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2717     Document Type: Review

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