Agrin-induced postsynaptic-like apparatus in skeletal muscle fibers in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 237-253

  Cohen, Ilana ^a   Rimer, Mendell ^a   Lømo, Terje ^a   McMahan, U J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGRIN; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030854507     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1997.0623     Document Type: Article

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