Axonal Transport and Neurodegeneration: How Marine Drugs Can Be Used for the Development of Therapeutics

Unlike virtually any other cells in the human body, neurons are tasked with the unique problem of transporting important factors from sites of synthesis at the cell bodies, across enormous distances, along narrow-caliber projections, to distally located nerve terminals in order to maintain cell viab...

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Main Authors: Joseph A. White, Rupkatha Banerjee, Shermali Gunawardena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-05-01
Series:Marine Drugs
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/14/5/102