Paralytic zebrafish lacking acetylcholine receptors fail to localize rapsyn clusters to the synapse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 5439-5448

  Ono, Fumihito ^a   Higashijima, Shin Ichi ^a,b,c   Shcherbatko, Anatoly ^a   Fetcho, Joseph R ^a   Brehm, Paul ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Clustering; Dihydropyridine receptor; Mutant; Neuromuscular junction; Rapsyn; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; RAPSYN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0035426034     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-15-05439.2001     Document Type: Article

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