Nonhomogeneous distribution of filamentous actin in the presynaptic terminals on the spinal motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3184-3192

  Li, Yan Chao ^a,b   Bai, Wan Zhu ^b,c   Zhou, Li ^a   Sun, Lian Kun ^a   Hashikawa, Tsutomu ^b  

^a Basic Medical College   (China)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; F actin; light microscopy; phalloidin; rat; synapse

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; ACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 77954606789     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22374     Document Type: Article

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