Acetylcholine receptor distribution and synapse elimination at the developing neuromuscular junction of mdx mice

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 561-569

  Minatel, Elaine ^a   Santo Neto, Humberto ^a   Marques, Maria Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptors; mdx mice; Neuromuscular junction; Synapse elimination

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROPHIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; INNERVATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STAINING; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SYNAPSE; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DYSTROPHIN; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0242363206     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10416     Document Type: Article

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