Twigs into branches: how a filopodium becomes a dendrite

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-91

  Heiman, Maxwell G ^a   Shaham, Shai ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; FILOPODIUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITES; PSEUDOPODIA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 76749158012     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.10.016     Document Type: Review

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