Paralysis elicited by spinal cord injury evokes selective disassembly of neuromuscular synapses with and without terminal sprouting in ankle flexors of the adult rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 500, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-133

  Burns, Anthony S ^a,b   Jawaid, Sabiha ^a   Zhong, Hui ^c   Yoshihara, Hiroyuki ^a   Bhagat, Srishti ^a   Murray, Marion ^a   Roy, Roland R ^c   Tessler, Alan ^a,d   Son, Young Jin ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aetylcholine receptor; Exercise; Inactivity; Neuromuscular junction; Schwann cell

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; EXERCISE RECOVERY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANKLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; S100 PROTEINS; SCHWANN CELLS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845381152     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21143     Document Type: Article

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