Molecular mechanisms of synaptic specificity

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-267

  Margeta, Milica A ^a   Shen, Kang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Synaptic specificity

Indexed keywords

CAPRICIOUS PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DSCAM PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 22; LAR RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NETRIN G LIGAND; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; SIDEKICK PROTEIN; SYG 1 PROTEIN; SYG 2 PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT7A PROTEIN;

CELL LINEAGE; CEREBELLUM; GRANULE CELL; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 75849126287     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2009.11.009     Document Type: Review

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