Deconstructing signal transduction pathways that regulate the actin cytoskeleton in dendritic spines

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 426-441

  Penzes, Peter ^a   Cahill, Michael E ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Dendritic spine; Kalirin; Rac1; Small GTPase; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAC1 PROTEIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC SPINE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84863782433     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.21015     Document Type: Review

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