Competition at silent synapses in reinnervated skeletal muscle

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 694-700

  Costanzo, Ellen M ^a   Barry, Jacqueline A ^a   Ribchester, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURAL NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BUNGAROTOXINS; FEMALE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0033943533     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76649     Document Type: Article

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