Synapse formation by hippocampal neurons from agrin-deficient mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-78

  Serpinskaya, Anna S ^a   Feng, Guoping ^b   Sanes, Joshua R ^b   Craig, Ann Marie ^a  

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

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AGRIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYO; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0032894306     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9112     Document Type: Article

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