Nestin is not essential for development of the CNS but required for dispersion of acetylcholine receptor clusters at the area of neuromuscular junctions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 11547-11552

  Mohseni, Paria ^a,b   Sung, Hoon Ki ^a   Murphy, Amanda J ^c   Laliberte, Christine L ^c   Pallari, Hanna Mari ^d   Henkelman, Mark ^c   Georgiou, John ^a   Xie, Gang ^a   Quaggin, Susan E ^a   Thorner, Paul S ^b,c   Eriksson, John E ^d   Nagy, Andras ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; NESTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INACTIVATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE ENDING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 5; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTOR AGGREGATION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 80051572159     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4396-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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