Ectopic expression of connectin reveals a repulsive function during growth cone guidance and synapse formation.

doi:10.1016/0896-6273(94)90023-x

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Ectopic expression of connectin reveals a repulsive function during growth cone guidance and synapse formation.

Neuron - 1 Sept 1994

Nose A, Takeichi M, Goodman C S

Abstract excerpt

Connectin, a cell surface protein of the leucine-rich repeat family in Drosophila, is expressed on the surface of a subset of embryonic muscles (primarily lateral muscles), on the growth cones and axons of the motoneurons that innervate these muscles (primarily SNa motoneurons), and on several as...

Topics

Animals
Axons
Connectin
Drosophila
Genes, Insect
Larva
Muscle Proteins
Mutation
Protein Kinases
Reference Values
Synapses
Synaptic Transmission
Tissue Distribution

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