Cloning of cDNAs encoding Xenopus neuregulin: Expression in myotomal muscle during embryo development

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 59-73

  Yang, Tie F ^a   Zhou, Hong ^b   Pun, San ^a   Ip, Nancy Y ^a   Peng, H Benjamin ^b   Tsim, Karl W K ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Development; Neuromuscular junction; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHICKEN; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL CELL; MOTONEURON; MYOTOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS;

EID: 0344863165     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00085-0     Document Type: Article

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