Specificity of synapse formation between Lymnaea heart motor neuron and muscle fiber is maintained in vitro in a soma-muscle configuration

Synapse

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 66-71

  Lee, Thomas K M ^a   Leung Jr , Alexander A C ^a   Brezden, Boris L ^b   Lukowiak, Ken ^a   Syed, Naweed I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heart motor neuron; Soma muscle synapse; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CELL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HEART; LYMNAEA; MOTOR NEURONS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036837444     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10125     Document Type: Article

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