Neuroscience: Synapses form in skeletal muscles lacking neuregulin receptors

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5730, 2005, Pages 1920-1923

  Escher, P ^a   Lacazette, E ^a   Courtet, M ^a   Blindenbacher, A ^a   Landmann, L ^b   Bezakova, C ^c   Lloyd, K C ^d   Mueller, U ^e   Brenner, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MUSCLE;

MOTOR NEURONS; NEUREGULIN (NRG); NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS (NMJ); RECEPTORS;

NEUROLOGY;

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 4; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

MEDICINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOTUBE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHWANN CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTO ONCOGENE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; GENES, ERBB; GENES, ERBB-2; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NEUREGULINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHWANN CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 21344433210     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108258     Document Type: Article

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