Assembly, plasticity and selective vulnerability to disease of mouse neuromuscular junctions

Journal of Neurocytology

Volumn 32, Issue 5-8, 2003, Pages 849-862

  Santos, Alexandre Ferrao ^a   Caroni, Pico ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; MICE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 3042580699     PISSN: 03004864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NEUR.0000020628.36013.88     Document Type: Review

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