A functional role for specific spliced variants of the α7β1 integrin in acetylcholine receptor clustering

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1067-1075

  Burkin, Dean J ^a   Gu, Maojian ^a   Hodges, Bradley L ^a   Campanelli, James T ^a   Kaufman, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

7 1; Acetylcholine receptor; Agrin; Integrin; Laminin

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; INTEGRIN; LAMININ;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGRIN; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INTEGRINS; LAMININ; MICE; MUSCLE FIBERS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032538841     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.4.1067     Document Type: Article

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