Fine structural changes of muscle spindles in the gracile axonal dystrophy mutant mouse

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 428, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 289-296

  Takagi, Akiteru ^a   Oda, Kenichiro ^b   Kikuchi, Tateki ^c   Kajihara, Hiroki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kyoto Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal degeneration; Dying back process; Muscle spindles; Mutant mouse; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; MITOCHONDRION; MOTOR NERVE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROFILAMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SENSORY NERVE;

EID: 0029815554     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00196703     Document Type: Article

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