Microtubule dynamics in neuronal morphogenesis

Open Biology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Sakakibara, Akira ^a   Ando, Ryota ^a   Sapir, Tamar ^b   Tanaka, Teruyuki ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon; Centrosome; Microtubules; Migration; Neuron; Polarity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CENTROSOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; MIGRATION; POLARITY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; CENTROSOME; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURONS;

AXON; CENTROSOME; MICROTUBULES; MIGRATION; NEURON; POLARITY;

EID: 84891685259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.130061     Document Type: Review

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