Multiple cell adhesion molecules shaping a complex nicotinic synapse on neurons

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-82

  Triana Baltzer, Gallen B ^a   Liu, Zhaoping ^a   Gounko, Natalia V ^a   Berg, Darwin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliary; L1; Neuroligin; Nicotinic; Synapse; SynCAM

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROLIGIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN L1 CAM; PROTEIN SYNCAM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CILIARY GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 49749083975     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2008.05.017     Document Type: Article

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