Mechanism of acetylcholine receptor cluster formation induced by DC electric field

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Hailong Luke ^a   Peng, H Benjamin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; F ACTIN; QUANTUM DOT; RAPSYN; TYROSINE; AGRIN; MUSK PROTEIN, XENOPUS; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MUSCLE CELLS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 80055048119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026805     Document Type: Article

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