Slit-robo signaling

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 143, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 3037-3044

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

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Ecole de Chimie de Paris   (France)

^c Kavli Institute for Brain Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Axon guidance; Development; Migration; Robo; Slit

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; ROUNDABOUT1 RECEPTOR; ROUNDABOUT2 RECEPTOR; ROUNDABOUT3 RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; SLIT2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; SLI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84984838190     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.132829     Document Type: Article

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