Giller_1973_Science_182_588

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Title : Choline acetyltransferase activity is increased in combined cultures of spinal cord and muscle cells from mice - Giller_1973_Science_182_588
Author(s) : Giller EL, Jr. , Schrier BK , Shainberg A , Fisk HR , Nelson PG
Ref : Science , 182 :588 , 1973
Abstract :

The activity of choline acetyltransferase was more than tenfold greater in combined cultures of spinal cord and muscle cells than in cultures of spinal cord cells alone. This increase was associated with the formation of functional neuromuscular junctions in culture. Counts of silver-stained cells and determinations of other enzyme activities indicated that the increased choline acetyltransferase activity was not due to nonspecific neuronal survival but reflected greater activity in the surviving neurons. Hence, muscle had a marked, highly specific trophic effect on the cholinergic neurons that innervated it.

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Giller EL, Jr., Schrier BK, Shainberg A, Fisk HR, Nelson PG (1973)
Choline acetyltransferase activity is increased in combined cultures of spinal cord and muscle cells from mice
Science 182 :588

Giller EL, Jr., Schrier BK, Shainberg A, Fisk HR, Nelson PG (1973)
Science 182 :588