Axotomy-Dependent and -Independent Synapse Elimination in Organ Cultures of WldS Mutant Mouse Skeletal Muscle

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-75

  Parson, Simon H ^a   Ribchester, Richard R ^b   Davie, Neil ^a   Gandhi, Nirav P ^a   Malik, Rabia Q ^a   Gillingwater, Thomas H ^b   Thomson, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neuromuscular junction; Organ culture; Synapse withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE WITHDRAWAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; AXOTOMY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYNAPSES; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 1842427936     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20016     Document Type: Article

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