The role of an agrin-growth factor interaction in ACh receptor clustering

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 272-285

  Daggett, David F ^a   Cohen, M W ^b   Stone, Donna ^c   Nikolics, Karoly ^c,e   Rauvala, Heikki ^d   Peng, H Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030268017     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1996.0063     Document Type: Article

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