Dscam,

Daisuke Hattori1, Ebru Demir, Ho Won Kim

  • 1Department of Biological Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90049, USA.

Nature
|September 14, 2007
PubMed
まとめ

ダウン症候群の細胞粘着分子 (DSCAM) の多様性は,ドロソフィラの神経回路の組み立てに不可欠です. Dscamタンパク質の多様性を減らすことは,神経組織を深刻に破壊し,適切な脳配線のためのユニークな神経のアイデンティティの重要性を強調します.

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