Wnts in action: From synapse formation to synaptic maintenance

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Dickins, Ellen M ^a   Salinas, Patricia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dvl; Frizzled; LTP; Neurodegenerative disease; Synapse disassembly; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT3 PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN; WNT7B PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELL MIGRATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84888395590     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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