Matrix metalloproteinases promote motor axon fasciculation in the Drosophila embryo
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Matrix metalloproteinases promote motor axon fasciculation in the Drosophila embryo.
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a large conserved family of extracellular proteases, a number of which are expressed during neuronal development and upregulated in nervous system diseases. Primarily on the basis of studies using pharmaceutical inhibitors, MMPs have been proposed to degrade the extracellular matrix to allow growth cone advance during development and hence play largely permi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Development
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1477-9129,0950-1991
DOI: 10.1242/dev.011072