Morphologic investigation of rolling mouse Nagoya (tg(rol)/tg(rol)) cerebellar Purkinje cells: An ataxic mutant, revisited

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-52

  Rhyu, Im Joo ^a   Oda, Sen Ich ^b   Uhm, Chang Sub ^a   Kim, Hyun ^a   Suh, Young Suk ^a   Abbott, Louise C ^c  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium ion channel; Cerebellum; Granule cell; Parallel fiber varicosity; Plasticity; Rolling mouse Nagoya

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN;

ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; CEREBELLUM; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; PURKINJE CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0344299283     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00254-2     Document Type: Article

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