Targeting the full length of the motor end plate regions in the mouse forelimb increases the uptake of Fluoro-Gold into corresponding spinal cord motor neurons

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 4 MAY, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tosolini, Andrew Paul ^a   Mohan, Rahul ^a   Morris, Renée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluoro Gold; Motor end plates; Motor neuron columns; Motor neurons; Mouse forelimb; Retrograde tracing

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD;

ACROMIODELTOIDEUS; ACROMIOTRAPEZIUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALIS; EXTENSOR CARPI ULNARIS; FLEXOR CARPIULNARIS; FLEXOR DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS; FORELIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINODELTOIDEUS; SYNAPTOSOME; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

EID: 84878800368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00058     Document Type: Article

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