Effects of botulinum neurotoxin type a on the expression of gephyrin in cat abducens motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 400, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-17

  Moreno López, Bernardo ^a,b   De La Cruz, Rosa R ^b   Pastor, Angel M ^b   Delgado García, José M ^b   Alvarez, Francisco J ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Postsynaptic density; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptology; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032511730     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981012)400:1<1::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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