Axonal Wrapping

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Axonal Wrapping

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Wrapping of axons by glial cells to insulate them from the hemolymph, and to form the Blood-Brain Barrier.

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2008). Axonal Wrapping. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_531

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_531
Published: 24 January 2024
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