The Torpedo electrocyte: A model system to study membrane-cytoskeleton interactions at the postsynaptic membrane

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-83

  Cartaud, Jean ^a   Cartaud, Annie ^a   Kordeli, Ekaterini ^a   Ludosky, Marie Aline ^a   Marchand, Sophie ^a   Stetzkowski Marden, Fraņcoise ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Dystrophin; Intermediate filaments; Microtubules; Rapsyn

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANES;

ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSIS; CYTOSKELETONS; DYSTROPHIN; ELECTRIC FISH; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROTUBULES; MODELLING SYSTEMS; RAPSYN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

PROTEINS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TORPEDO;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034177065     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(20000401)49:1<73::AID-JEMT8>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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