Terminal Schwann cell structure is altered diaphragm of mdx mice

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 656-663

  Personius, Kirkwood E ^a   Sawyer, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dystrophin; mdx mouse; Muscle regeneration; Neuromuscular junction; Schwann cell

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROPHIN; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; INNERVATION; MOTOR NERVE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; DIAPHRAGM; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 27144475331     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20405     Document Type: Article

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