The neuromuscular junction: Selective remodeling of synaptic regulators at the nerve/muscle interface

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 130, Issue 6-8, 2013, Pages 402-411

  Witzemann, Veit ^a   Chevessier, Frédéric ^b   Pacifici, Pier Giorgio ^c   Yampolsky, Pessah ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c Genious Targeting Laboratory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Development; Mouse model; Muscle specific kinase; Neuromuscular junction; Synapse formation

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN MUSK; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAPSYN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84879836722     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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