Increase in presynaptic territory of C-terminals on lumbar motoneurons of G93A SOD1 mice during disease progression

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 551-561

  Pullen, A H ^a   Athanasiou, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal; MND ALS; Model; Plasticity; Synapse

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MODULATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE ENDING; NISSL SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INTERNEURONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 59149096854     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06602.x     Document Type: Article

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