Neuromuscular pathology in mice lacking alpha-synuclein

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 350-353

  Pelkonen, Anssi ^a   Yavich, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alpha synuclein; Electromyography; Knockout mice; Neuromuscular junction; Skeletal muscles

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; LEARNING; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAROD TEST; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISEASES;

EID: 78650518172     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.054     Document Type: Article

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