Volume 32, Issue 5-8

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June 2003

The Neuromuscular Junction

Issue Editors:

Chien-Ping Ko,
Wesley J. Thompson

41 articles in this issue

Preface to the special issue
Chien-Ping Ko
Wesley J. Thompson
Preface Pages: 423 - 424
Bernard Katz: His search for truth and beauty
John Nicholls
Oscar Hill
OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 430
Obituary: Sir Bernard Katz (1911–2003)
M.R. Bennett
OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 436
Neural transmitter release: From quantal secretion to exocytosis and beyond—The Fenn Lecture
Bernard Katz
OriginalPaper Pages: 437 - 446
The formation and function of single transmitter release sites at mature amphibian motor—nerve terminals
Maxwell R. Bennett
OriginalPaper Pages: 447 - 472
Maintenance of transmitter release from neuromuscular junctions with different patterns of usage ‘in vivo’
Guy S. Bewick
OriginalPaper Pages: 473 - 487
The role of integrins in the modulation of neurotransmitter release from motor nerve terminals by stretch and hypertonicity
Alan D. Grinnell
Bo-Ming Chen
Yoshiaki Kidokoro
OriginalPaper Pages: 489 - 503
Structural determinants of the reliability of synaptic transmission at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction
Clarke R. Slater
OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 522
The nerve-muscle synapse of the garter snake
Robert S. Wilkinson
Haibing Teng
OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 538
Monitoring synaptic vesicle recycling in frog motor nerve terminals with FM dyes
Silvio O. Rizzoli
David A. Richards
William J. Betz
OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 549
Two synaptic vesicle pools, vesicle recruitment and replenishment of pools at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction
Hiroshi Kuromi
Yoshi Kidokoro
OriginalPaper Pages: 551 - 565
Genetic and molecular analysis of synaptic vesicle recycling in Drosophila
Bing Zhang
OriginalPaper Pages: 567 - 589
The role of nitric oxide signaling in the formation of the neuromuscular junction
Earl W. Godfrey
Russell C. Schwarte
OriginalPaper Pages: 591 - 602
ATP induces post-synaptic gene expressions in vertebrate skeletal neuromuscular junctions
Karl W. K. Tsim
Roy C. Y. Choi
Eric A. Barnard
OriginalPaper Pages: 603 - 617
Neuregulins and the neuromuscular system: 10 years of answers and questions
Douglas L. Falls
OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 647
Neuregulin: An activity-dependent synaptic modulator at the neuromuscular junction
Jeffrey A. Loeb
OriginalPaper Pages: 649 - 664
Neuregulins: Primary or secondary signals for the control of synapse-specific gene expression
Mendell Rimer
OriginalPaper Pages: 665 - 675
Transcription in neuromuscular junction formation: Who turns on whom?
Morten Sunesen
Jean-Pierre Changeux
OriginalPaper Pages: 677 - 684
A synaptic balancing act: Local and global signaling in the clustering of ACh receptors at vertebrate neuromuscular junctions
Raghavan Madhavan
H. Benjamin Peng
OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 696
Signaling complexes for postsynaptic differentiation
Zhenge Luo
Qiang Wang
Lin Mei
OriginalPaper Pages: 697 - 708
The postsynaptic submembrane machinery at the neuromuscular junction: Requirement for rapsyn and the utrophin/dystrophin-associated complex
Glen B. Banks
Christian Fuhrer
Stanley C. Froehner
OriginalPaper Pages: 709 - 726
Postsynaptic signaling of new players at the neuromuscular junction
Kwok-On Lai
Nancy Y. Ip
OriginalPaper Pages: 727 - 741
Expression and localization of acetylcholinesterase at the neuromuscular junction
Richard L. Rotundo
OriginalPaper Pages: 743 - 766
Watching the neuromuscular junction
Jeff W. Lichtman
Joshua R. Sanes
OriginalPaper Pages: 767 - 775
Activity-dependent elimination of neuromuscular synapses
Ryan M. Wyatt
Rita J. Balice-Gordon
OriginalPaper Pages: 777 - 794
Effects of evoked and spontaneous motoneuronal firing on synapse competition and elimination in skeletal muscle
G. Busetto
M. Buffelli
A. Cangiano
OriginalPaper Pages: 795 - 802
Phosphorylation reactions in activity-dependent synapse modification at the neuromuscular junction during development
Phillip G. Nelson
Maria A. Lanuza
Josep Tomas
OriginalPaper Pages: 803 - 816
Activity-dependent switch from synapse formation to synapse elimination during development of neuromuscular junctions
Albert A. Herrera
Yu Zeng
OriginalPaper Pages: 817 - 833
What controls the position, number, size, and distribution of neuromuscular junctions on rat muscle fibers?
Terje Lømo
OriginalPaper Pages: 835 - 848
Assembly, plasticity and selective vulnerability to disease of mouse neuromuscular junctions
Alexandre Ferrão Santos
Pico Caroni
OriginalPaper Pages: 849 - 862
The relationship of neuromuscular synapse elimination to synaptic degeneration and pathology: Insights from Wld^S and other mutant mice
Thomas H. Gillingwater
Richard R. Ribchester
OriginalPaper Pages: 863 - 881
Basal lamina and the organization of neuromuscular synapses
Bruce L. Patton
OriginalPaper Pages: 883 - 903
Activity dependent removal of agrin from synaptic basal lamina by matrix metalloproteinase 3
Michael J. Werle
Michael VanSaun
OriginalPaper Pages: 905 - 913
Glycobiology of the neuromuscular junction
Paul T. Martin
OriginalPaper Pages: 915 - 929
Neurotrophic regulation of the development and function of the neuromuscular synapses
Bai Lu
Hyun-Soo Je
OriginalPaper Pages: 931 - 941
Cytokines, growth factors and sprouting at the neuromuscular junction
Arthur W. English
OriginalPaper Pages: 943 - 960
Mechanisms controlling axonal sprouting at the neuromuscular junction
Siu Lin Tam
Tessa Gordon
OriginalPaper Pages: 961 - 974
Terminal Schwann cells guide the reinnervation of muscle after nerve injury
Hyuno Kang
Le Tian
Wesley Thompson
OriginalPaper Pages: 975 - 985
Roles of glial cells in the formation, function, and maintenance of the neuromuscular junction
Samir Koirala
Linga V. Reddy
Chien-Ping Ko
OriginalPaper Pages: 987 - 1002
Modulation of neurotransmission by reciprocal synapse-glial interactions at the neuromuscular junction
Daniel S. Auld
Aurore Colomar
Richard Robitaille
OriginalPaper Pages: 1003 - 1015
Congenital myasthenic syndromes: A diverse array of molecular targets
Andrew G. Engel
Kinji Ohno
Steven M. Sine
OriginalPaper Pages: 1017 - 1037

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