In vivo imaging of preferential motor axon outgrowth to and synaptogenesis at prepatterned acetylcholine receptor clusters in embryonic zebrafish skeletal muscle

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 934-947

  Panzer, Jessica A ^a   Song, Yuanquan ^a   Balice Gordon, Rita J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Axon guidance; Filopodia; Growth cone; Motor neuron; Neuromuscular junction

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FILOPODIUM; GROWTH CONE; IMAGING; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AXONS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GROWTH CONES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYNAPSES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 32544451732     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3656-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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