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Review
. 1997 Mar;29(3):401-14.
doi: 10.1016/s1357-2725(96)00110-0.

Neuronal laminins and their cellular receptors

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Neuronal laminins and their cellular receptors

S K Powell et al. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 1997 Mar.

Abstract

The laminins are a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins expressed throughout developing neural tissues. The laminins are potent stimulators of neurite outgrowth in vitro for a variety of cell types, presumably reflecting an in vivo role in stimulating axon outgrowth. In recent years, the laminins have been shown to occur in several distinct isoforms; currently, the precise functional differences between the laminin variants are not well understood. A variety of neuronal surface receptors have been identified for one laminin isoform, laminin-1. These receptors include several members of the integrin family, as well as non-integrin laminin-binding proteins such as LBP-110, the 67 kDa laminin-receptor, alpha-dystroglycan, and beta 1,4 galactosyltransferase. Little is currently known about receptors for other laminin isoforms.

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