Disassembly of the cholinergic postsynaptic apparatus induced by axotomy in mouse sympathetic neurons: The loss of dystrophin and β-dystroglycan immunoreactivity precedes that of the acetylcholine receptor

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 768-779

  Zaccaria, M Letizia ^a   De Stefano, M Egle ^a   Properzi, Francesca ^a   Gotti, Cecilia ^b   Petrucci, Tamara C ^c   Paggi, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Dystroglycan; Dystrophin; Immunoelectron microscopy; Mouse sympathetic superior cervical ganglion; Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; 1 2 spectrin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROGLYCAN; DYSTROPHIN; SPECTRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0031846330     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199808000-00006     Document Type: Article

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