Secondary motoneurons in juvenile and adult zebrafish: Axonal pathfinding errors caused by embryonic nicotine exposure

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 512, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-322

  Menelaou, Evdokia ^a   Svoboda, Kurt R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent stereomicroscopy; GFP; Live imaging; Neuromuscular junction; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NICOTINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; NICOTINIC AGENT;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AXONS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 59149105916     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21903     Document Type: Article

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