The acetylcholine receptor γ-to-ε switch occurs in individual endplates

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 331, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1522-1527

  Yumoto, Norihiro ^a   Wakatsuki, Shuji ^a   Sehara Fujisawa, Atsuko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Myogenesis; Neuromuscular junction; Subunit switching

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; EMBRYO; GENE SWITCHING; INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 18844365359     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.04.081     Document Type: Article

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