The SLIT-ROBO pathway: A regulator of cell function with implications for the reproductive system

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 697-704

  Dickinson, Rachel E ^a   Duncan, W Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL MOVEMENT; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 77949793763     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-10-0017     Document Type: Review

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