Lack of dystrophin functionally affects α3β2/β4-nicotinic acethylcholine receptors in sympathetic neurons of dystrophic mdx mice

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 528-537

  Di Angelantonio, Silvia ^a   De Stefano, Maria Egle ^a   Piccioni, Alessio ^a   Lombardi, Loredana ^a   Gotti, Cecilia ^b   Paggi, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomic neurons; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Immunohistochemistry; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Patch clamp recording; Western immunoblot

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DYSTROPHIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NEURONS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

EID: 78650606694     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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