The neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel, Scn8a, is essential for postnatal maturation of spinal, but not oculomotor, motor units

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 328-334

  Porter, John D ^a   Goldstein, Linda A ^a,b   Kasarskis, Edward J ^a,b   Brueckner, Jennifer K ^a   Spear, Brett T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LEXINGTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR UNIT; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0030175936     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0107     Document Type: Article

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