Nerve terminal contributes to acetylcholine receptor organization at the dystrophic neuromuscular junction of mdx mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-187

  Marques, Maria Julia ^a   Taniguti, Ana Paula Tiemi ^a   Minatel, Elaine ^a   Neto, Humberto Santo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptors; mdx mice; Muscle fiber regeneration; Neuromuscular junction remodeling

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; LIDOCAINE; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LIDOCAINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTOR AGGREGATION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REGENERATION;

MUS;

EID: 33947101518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20421     Document Type: Article

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