Presynaptic morphogenesis, active zone organization and structural plasticity in Drosophila

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2017, Pages 119-129

  Van Vactor, David ^a,b   Sigrist, Stephan J ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CELL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE ENDING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 85016780147     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2017.03.003     Document Type: Review

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