Nerve terminals form but fail to mature when postsynaptic differentiation is blocked: In vivo analysis using mammalian nerve-muscle chimeras

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 6077-6086

  Nguyen, Quyen T ^a   Son, Young Jin ^a   Sanes, Joshua R ^a   Lichtman, Jeff W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo; Mammalian; Neuromuscular junction; Postsynaptic differentiation; Presynaptic maturation; Surgical chimera

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAPSYN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NERVE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034663160     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-16-06077.2000     Document Type: Article

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