Presynaptic active zone density during development and synaptic plasticity

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Clarke, Gwenaëlle L ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Nishimune, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bassoon; Calcium channel; Laminin; Rab3; Rim1; Spectrin; Synaptojanin; Unc 51

Indexed keywords

ADDUCIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; LAMININ; RAB PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; SYNAPTOJANIN; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME;

EID: 84863174944     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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