Β-Catenin stabilization in skeletal muscles, but not in motor neurons, leads to aberrant motor innervation of the muscle during neuromuscular development in mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 366, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-267

  Liu, Yun ^a   Sugiura, Yoshie ^a   Wu, Fenfen ^a   Mi, Wentao ^a   Taketo, Makoto M ^b   Cannon, Steve ^a   Carroll, Thomas ^a   Lin, Weichun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Mouse genetics; Nerve defasciculation; Neuromuscular junction; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME REGULATION; FASCICULATION; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE LEVEL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

MUS;

EID: 84861223632     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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