Polysialic acid: A veteran sugar with a new site of action in the brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10335-10336

  Giza, Joanna ^a   Biederer, Thomas ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYSIALIC ACID; SYNAPTIC CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIALYLATION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIALIC ACIDS;

EID: 77953790487     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005637107     Document Type: Note

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