Macromolecular connections of active zone material to docked synaptic vesicles and presynaptic membrane at neuromuscular junctions of mouse

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 513, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 457-468

  Nagwaney, Sharuna ^a,b   Harlow, Mark Lee ^a   Jung, Jae Hoon ^a   Szule, Joseph A ^a   Ress, David ^a,c   Xu, Jing ^a,d   Marshall, Robert M ^a   McMahan, Uel Jackson ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bain and Company   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Active zones; Electron tomography; Neuromuscular junctions; Synapses; Vesicle docking

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ACTIVE ZONE MATERIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL SIZE; CELL SURFACE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 64549108042     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21975     Document Type: Article

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