PerleCan fix your muscle AChEs

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 241-242

  Steen, Michelle S ^a   Froehner, Stanley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; DYSTROGLYCAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

DEPOLARIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038060369     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(03)00077-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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