Synaptic transmission is impaired at neuronal autonomic synapses in agrin-null mice

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 521-534

  Gingras, Jacinthe ^a,d   Rassadi, Siamak ^b   Cooper, Ellis ^b   Ferns, Michael ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Gene knockout; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Sympathetic; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34249844855     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20304     Document Type: Article

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