Utrophin is lacking at the neuromuscular junctions in the extraocular muscles of normal cat: Artefact or true?

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-194

  Assadi, Maziar ^a,c   Müntener, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Extraocular muscle; Immunohistochemistry; Utrophin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STAIN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATS; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RATS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; UTROPHIN;

FELIS CATUS;

EID: 18744365199     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0762-9     Document Type: Article

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