Neurofibromatosis-like phenotype in Drosophila caused by lack of glucosylceramide extension

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

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6987-6992

  Dahlgaard, Katja ^a   Jung, Anita ^b   Qvortrup, Klaus ^b   Clausen, Henrik ^a   Kjaerulff, Ole ^b   Wandall, Hans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLCERAMIDE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; NEUROFIBROMIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GLIA; MAST CELL; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE SHEATH; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860794041     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115453109     Document Type: Article

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