Distinct roles of muscle and motoneuron LRP4 in neuromuscular junction formation

Neuron

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-107

  Wu, Haitao ^a,c   Lu, Yisheng ^a   Shen, Chengyong ^a   Patel, Neil ^a   Gan, Lin ^d   Xiong, Wen C ^a,b   Mei, Lin ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; LRP4 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SYNAPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, LDL;

EID: 84863813206     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.033     Document Type: Article

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