Signals mediating ion channel clustering at the neuromuscular junction

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-363

  Colledge, Marcie ^a   Froehner, Stanley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROPHIN; ION CHANNEL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RAPSYN; SODIUM CHANNEL; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UTROPHIN;

MODEL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032103091     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80061-5     Document Type: Article

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