The zebrafish motility mutant twitch once reveals new roles for rapsyn in synaptic function

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 6491-6498

  Ono, Fumihito ^a   Shcherbatko, Anatoly ^a   Higashijima, Shin ichi ^a   Mandel, Gail ^a   Brehm, Paul ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle fatigue; Myasthenia gravis; Rapsyn; Synapse development; Synaptic depression; Tetratricopeptide repeats

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RAPSYN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0036703467     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-15-06491.2002     Document Type: Article

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