Dystrophin stabilizes α3- but not α7-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes at the postsynaptic apparatus in the mouse superior cervical ganglion

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-66

  Del Signore, Arianna ^a   Gotti, Cecilia ^b   De Stefano, M Egle ^a   Moretti, Milena ^b   Paggi, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dystrophin dystroglycan complex; Epibatidine; Genetically dystrophic mdx mice; Immunoelectron microscopy; Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes; Subunit specific antibodies; Bungarotoxin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; DYSTROPHIN; EPIBATIDINE; IODINE 125; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0036315609     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.2002.0495     Document Type: Article

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