MicroRNAs in axon guidance

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Iyer, Archana N ^a   Bellon, Anaïs ^b   Baudet, Marie Laure ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon; Axon guidance; Development; Growth cone; miRNAs; Neuron

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923217323     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00078     Document Type: Review

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