Making and breaking synapses through local mRNA regulation

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-421

  Swanger, Sharon A ^a   Bassell, Gary J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NEURONS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79960898593     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.04.002     Document Type: Review

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