A cysteine-rich form of Xenopus neuregulin induces the expression of acetylcholine receptors in cultured myotubes

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 415-429

  Yang, Jie F ^a   Zhou, Hong ^b   Choi, Roy C Y ^a   Ip, Nancy Y ^a   Peng, H Benjamin ^b   Tsim, Karl W K ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; HEPARIN DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MYOTUBE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032796683     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1999.0759     Document Type: Article

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