Aberrant patterning of neuromuscular synapses in choline acetyltransferase-deficient mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 539-549

  Brandon, Eugene P ^a   Lin, Weichun ^a   D'Amour, Kevin A ^a   Pizzo, Donald P ^b   Dominguez, Bertha ^a   Sugiura, Yoshie ^c   Thode, Silke ^a   Ko, Chien Ping ^c   Thal, Leon J ^b   Gage, Fred H ^a   Lee, Kuo Fen ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Choline acetyltransferase; Gene knock out; Mice; Neural development; Neuromuscular

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; INNERVATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037439758     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-02-00539.2003     Document Type: Article

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