Frizzled-9 impairs acetylcholine receptor clustering in skeletal muscle cells

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Avilés, Evelyn C ^a   Pinto, Cristina ^a   Hanna, Patricia ^a   Ojeda, Jorge ^a   Pérez, Viviana ^a   De Ferrari, Giancarlo V ^b   Zamorano, Pedro ^c   Albistur, Miguel ^a   Sandoval, Daniel ^a   Henríquez, Juan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Frizzled receptors; Neuromuscular junction; Postsynaptic; Skeletal muscle; Wnt proteins

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; FRIZZLED 9 PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84898911176     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00110     Document Type: Article

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