UNC-6/netrin and its receptors UNC-5 and UNC-40/DCC modulate growth cone protrusion in vivo in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4433-4442

  Norris, Adam D ^a   Lundquist, Erik A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Filopodia; Growth cone; Lamellipodia; Protrusion; UNC 6 netrin

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; NETRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILOPODIUM; GENE; GROWTH CONE; IN VIVO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UNC 5 GENE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; GENES, HELMINTH; GROWTH CONES; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOPODIA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053077745     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.068841     Document Type: Article

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