Presynaptic development at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction: Assembly and localization of presynaptic active zones

Neuron

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 617-626

  Prokop, Andreas ^a   Landgraf, Matthias ^a   Rushton, Emma ^a,b   Broadie, Kendal ^a,b   Bate, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030273675     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80195-6     Document Type: Article

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