Axonal sprouting in mdx mice and its relevance to cell and gene mediated therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-69

  Neto, Humberto Santo ^a   Martins, Airton José ^a   Minatel, Elaine ^a   Marques, Maria Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Dystrophin; mdx; Nerve sprouting; Neuromuscular junction

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROPHIN;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE THERAPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0038731226     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00220-9     Document Type: Article

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