Stability of frog motor nerve terminals in the absence of target muscle fibers

Developmental Biology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-71

  Dunaevsky, Anna ^a   Connor, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0032005530     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8805     Document Type: Article

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