Neuromuscular synapses can form in vivo by incorporation of initially aneural postsynaptic specializations

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4471-4481

  Flanagan Steet, Heather ^a   Fox, Michael A ^b   Meyer, Dirk ^c   Sanes, Joshua R ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Muscle; Neuromuscular junction; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LABELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MYOTOME; MYOTUBE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; TIME; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NEURITES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 27744602432     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02044     Document Type: Article

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