Watching the neuromuscular junction

Journal of Neurocytology

Volumn 32, Issue 5-8, 2003, Pages 767-775

  Lichtman, Jeff W ^a   Sanes, Joshua R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS LINKING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTONEURON; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION;

EID: 3042580701     PISSN: 03004864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NEUR.0000020622.58471.37     Document Type: Review

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