Expression of two neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits in innervated and denervated adult rat muscle

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-74

  Sala, Carlo ^a   Kimura, Ikuko ^b   Santoro, Giuseppe ^c   Kimura, Masayasu ^b   Fumagalli, Guido ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Denervation; mRNA; Neuromuscular junction; Neuronal nicotinic receptor; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030572678     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12923-2     Document Type: Article

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