The multifaceted roles of Slits and Robos in cortical circuits: From proliferation to axon guidance and neurological diseases

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 82-88

  Blockus, Heike ^a,b   Chédotal, Alain ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE LA VISION   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA SECRETASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; SLIT PROTEIN, VERTEBRATE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNECTOME; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLEXIA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 84897081932     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.03.003     Document Type: Review

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