Emerging roles for semaphorins and VEGFs in synaptogenesis and synaptic plasticity

Cell Adhesion and Migration

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 541-546

  Tillo, Miguel ^a   Ruhrberg, Christiana ^a   Mackenzie, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood vessel; Plasticity; Semaphorin; Synapse; Synaptogenesis; VEGF

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3A; SEMAPHORIN 3E; SEMAPHORIN 3F; SEMAPHORIN 5B; SYNAPSIN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

CELL DENSITY; CYTOPLASM; DENTATE GYRUS; DROSOPHILA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84872066036     PISSN: 19336918     EISSN: 19336926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cam.22408     Document Type: Review

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