Specificity and development of innervation pattern of Xenopus pectoralis muscle

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 415-432

  Grinnell, A D ^a   Harada, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

end plates; neuromuscular junction; polyneuronal innervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029834920     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199612)31:4<415::AID-NEU3>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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