Enhancement of spontaneous transmitter release at neonatal mouse neuromuscular junctions by the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF)

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 512, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 635-641

  Ribchester, Richard R ^a   Thomson, Derek ^a   Haddow, Lewis J ^a   Ushkaryov, Yuri A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LATROTOXIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LANTHANUM CHLORIDE; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; GLIA CELL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LANTHANUM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SPIDER VENOMS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032212618     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.635bd.x     Document Type: Article

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