The transient existence of 'en passant' nerve terminals in normal embryonic rat skeletal muscle

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 259-264

  Sheard, Philip W ^a   Duxson, Marilyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

development; motoneuron; muscle; nerve terminal; sprouting; synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; FETUS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; EMBRYO; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE ENDINGS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031579424     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(96)00184-8     Document Type: Article

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