Piccolo, a novel 420 kDa protein associated with the presynaptic cytomatrix

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 214-223

  Cases Langhoff, Claudia ^a,b   Voss, Britta ^a   Garner, Abigail M ^a   Appeltauer, Ute ^a   Takei, Koji ^c   Kindler, Stefan ^d   Veh, Rüdiger W ^a   De Camilli, Pietro ^c   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^a,e   Garner, Craig C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Electron microscopy; Neurons; Rat brain; Synaptic junction

Indexed keywords

MATRIX PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOSOME;

EID: 13344284658     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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