The open duration of fetal ACh receptor-channel changes during mouse muscle development

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 508, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 393-400

  Grassi, Francesca ^a,b   Epifano, Olga ^a,c   Mileo, Anna Maria ^b   Barabino, Benedetta ^b   Eusebi, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FETUS; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MYOTUBE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C2C12 CELL LINE; CELL LINE; CHANNEL GATING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLEXOR DIGITORUM BREVIS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXONS; FEMALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032522827     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.393bq.x     Document Type: Article

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