Axon Guidance: Repulsion and Attraction in Roundabout Ways

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Pappu, Kartik S ^a   Zipursky, S Lawrence ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 77953158270     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.036     Document Type: Short Survey

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