Syncytial coupling of neurons in tissue culture and early ontogenesis

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-331

  Sotnikov, O S ^a   Malashko, V V ^b   Rybakova, G I ^a  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Grodno State Agrarian University   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Axons; Fusion; Membranes; Neuronal syncytia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CYTOPLASM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; SYNCYTIUM; TISSUE CULTURE; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; GIANT CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NEURITE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURITES; NEURONS;

EID: 47749118825     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: 1573899X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11055-008-0045-8     Document Type: Article

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