Molecular Signaling. How Do Axons Die?

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue C, 2011, Pages 185-217

  Coleman, Michael ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

AGING; ANIMAL; BOOK; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GLIA; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; GANGLIOSIDES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE 4; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROGLIA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79551635259     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-380860-8.00005-7     Document Type: Book

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