Spike timing plays a key role in synapse elimination at the neuromuscular junction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Favero, Morgana ^a,b   Busetto, Giuseppe ^a   Cangiano, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SYNAPSE ELIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RATS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84862533674     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201147109     Document Type: Article

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