Distinct roles of nerve and muscle in postsynaptic differentiation of the neuromuscular synapse

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6832, 2001, Pages 1057-1064

  Lin, Weichun ^a   Burgess, Robert W ^b   Dominguez, Bertha ^a   Pfaff, Samuel L ^a   Sanes, Joshua R ^b   Lee, Kuo Fen ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; GENES; MUSCLE; PROTEINS;

POSTSYNAPTIC DIFFERENTIATION;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035953645     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35074025     Document Type: Article

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