Biochemical mechanisms for translational regulation in synaptic plasticity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 931-942

  Klann, Eric ^a   Dever, Thomas E ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL STIMULATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SYNAPSES;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9944229967     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1557     Document Type: Review

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