SMN requirement for synaptic vesicle, active zone and microtubule postnatal organization in motor nerve terminals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Torres Benito, Laura ^a   Neher, Margret Feodora ^a   Cano, Raquel ^a   Ruiz, Rocio ^a   Tabares, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; ACTIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1;

ACTIVE ZONE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOSOME; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOTONEURON; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE ENDINGS; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 80053958802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026164     Document Type: Article

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