L-type calcium channels mediate acetylcholine receptor aggregation on cultured muscle

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 987-998

  Milholland, Rebecca B R ^a   Dulla, Christopher ^a,b   Gordon, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Aggregation; Agrin; Calcium; Cluster; Dysgenic mouse; Intracellular signaling; L type calcium channel; Muscle specific kinase; MuSK; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE DYSGENESIS; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENOTYPE; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NIFEDIPINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 34548319238     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20397     Document Type: Article

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