Essential role of Rac1 and Rac3 GTPases in neuronal development

FASEB Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1347-1357

  Corbetta, Sara ^a   Gualdoni, Sara ^a   Ciceri, Gabriele ^a   Monari, Marta ^a   Zuccaro, Emanuela ^a   Tybulewicz, Victor L J ^b   De Curtis, Ivan ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axons; Dendritic spines; Hilar mossy cells; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAC3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; FATALITY; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 70349311355     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-121574     Document Type: Article

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