APP interacts with LRP4 and agrin to coordinate the development of the neuromuscular junction in mice

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Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Choi, Hong Y ^a   Liu, Yun ^a   Tennert, Christian ^a,c   Sugiura, Yoshie ^a   Karakatsani, Andromachi ^b   Kröger, Stephan ^b   Johnson, Eric B ^a   Hammer, Robert E ^a   Lin, Weichun ^a   Herz, Joachim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 4; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; MYOTUBE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84882685865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00220.001     Document Type: Article

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