Neurexins and neuroligins: Synapses look out of the nervous system

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2655-2666

  Bottos, Alessia ^a   Rissone, Alberto ^a   Bussolino, Federico ^a   Arese, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nervous vascular parallels; Neurexin; Neuroligin; Synapse

Indexed keywords

CONTACTIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIMERIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLIA CELL; GLYCOSYLATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MICE; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79960931882     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-011-0664-z     Document Type: Review

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