An acetylcholine receptor alpha-subunit promoter conferring preferential synaptic expression in muscle of transgenic mice.

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Published in EMBO J on March 01, 1991

Authors

A Klarsfeld1, J L Bessereau, A M Salmon, A Triller, C Babinet, J P Changeux

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1: Unité de Neurobiologie Moléculaire, URA CNRS D1284, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

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