Reconstruction of the neuromuscular junction connectome

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Srinivasan, Ranga ^a   Li, Qing ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaobo ^a   Lu, Ju ^c   Lichtman, Jeff ^d   Wong, Stephen T C ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 77954201127     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq179     Document Type: Article

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