Preserve and protect: Maintaining axons within functional circuits

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 572-582

  Pease, Sarah E ^a,b   Segal, Rosalind A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon injury; Axon maintenance; Axon survival; Neurodegeneration; Neurotrophins; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; AXONAL INJURY; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CONNECTOME; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CYTOSKELETON; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 84912114542     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.07.007     Document Type: Review

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