[Cell adhesion proteins in the nervous system: immunoglobulin superfamily--structure, function and involvement in neurological diseases].

Article

[Cell adhesion proteins in the nervous system: immunoglobulin superfamily--structure, function and involvement in neurological diseases].

No to hattatsu = Brain and development - 1 Nov 1996

Yazaki T, Han C X, Uemura K

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Cell adhesion proteins play important roles in cell-cell interactions, which regulate development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. In the nervous system, there exist unique groups of cell adhesion proteins, that are essential for elaborate neural network formation. Accumulated evidence...

Topics

Humans
Immunoglobulins
Mutation
Nervous System Diseases
Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules
Protein Structure, Tertiary

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