The Zebrafish ennui behavioral mutation disrupts acetylcholine receptor localization and motor axon stability

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-61

  Saint Amant, Louis ^a,b   Sprague, Shawn M ^a   Hirata, Hiromi ^a,c   Li, Qin ^a,d   Cui, Wilson W ^a   Zhou, Weibin ^a   Poudou, Olivier ^a   Hume, Richard I ^a   Kuwada, John Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Development; Mutant; Neuromuscular; Synapse

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENNUI GENE; FAST MUSCLE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOTE; LARVA; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOTOME; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGRIN; ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SWIMMING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 38149016058     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20569     Document Type: Article

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