The role of alternative splicing in regulating agrin binding to muscle cells

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-191

  Deyst, Katherine A ^a   McKechnie, Beth A ^a   Fallon, Justin R ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrin receptor; Dystroglycan; Neuromuscular junction; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROGLYCAN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SURFACE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MUSCLE CELL; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AGRIN; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DYSTROGLYCANS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032190624     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00105-9     Document Type: Article

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