Perisynaptic schwann cells at the neuromuscular synapse: Adaptable, multitasking glial cells

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Ko, Chien Ping ^a   Robitaille, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLIA; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHWANN CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROGLIA; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SCHWANN CELLS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; XENOPUS;

EID: 84940855599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a020503     Document Type: Article

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