Expression of Utrophin at Dystrophin-Deficient Neuromuscular Synapses of mdx Mice: A Study of Protected and Affected Muscles

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-286

  Ferretti, Renato ^a   Neto, Humberto Santo ^a   Marques, Maria Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Intrinsic laryngeal muscle; Nerve terminal; Neuromuscular junction; Utrophin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROPHIN; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DYSTROPHIN; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NECK MUSCLES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REGENERATION; SYNAPSES; UTROPHIN;

MUS;

EID: 78651412866     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21297     Document Type: Article

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