Calcitonin gene-related peptide: possible role in formation and maintenance of neuromuscular junctions

Efficientin vitrosynthesis of biologically active RNA and RNA hybridization probes from plasmids containing a bacteriophage SP6 promoter

1984 • 6,459 citations

Production of a novel neuropeptide encoded by the calcitonin gene via tissue-specific RNA processing

1983 • 2,298 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactivity in the spinal cord of man and of eight other species

1984 • 1,024 citations

Neurotrophic factors: from molecule to man

1994 • 800 citations

Potentiation of developing neuromuscular synapses by the neurotrophins NT-3 and BDNF

1993 • 753 citations

Firing patterns of motor units in normal rats

1985 • 723 citations

Enhanced synthesis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the lesioned peripheral nerve: different mechanisms are responsible for the regulation of BDNF and NGF mRNA.

1992 • 719 citations

Differential expression of mRNAs for neurotrophins and their receptors after axotomy of the sciatic nerve.

1993 • 685 citations

Neurotrophins promote motor neuron survival and are present in embryonic limb bud

1993 • 619 citations

The granin-(chromogranin/secretogranin) family

1991 • 475 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide regulates muscle acetylcholine receptor synthesis

1986 • 472 citations

Identification of the nerve terminal targets of botulinum neurotoxin serotypes A, D, and E.

1993 • 417 citations

Secretogranins I and II: two tyrosine-sulfated secretory proteins common to a variety of cells secreting peptides by the regulated pathway.

1985 • 384 citations

Differential release of amino acids, neuropeptides, and catecholamines from isolated nerve terminals

1991 • 330 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide, a peptide present in spinal cord motoneurons, increases the number of acetylcholine receptors in primary cultures of chick embryo myotubes

1986 • 312 citations

The primary structure of human secretogranin II, a widespread tyrosine-sulfated secretory granule protein that exhibits low pH- and calcium-induced aggregation

1989 • 309 citations

Secretoneurin—a neuropeptide generated in brain, adrenal medulla and other endocrine tissues by proteolytic processing of secretogranin II (chromogranin C)

1993 • 264 citations

Comparative distribution of mRNAs for glutamic acid decatrboxylase, tyrosine hydroxylase, and tachykinins in the basal ganglia: An in situ hybridization study in the rodent brain

1987 • 232 citations

Retrograde axonal transport of ciliary neurotrophic factor is increased by peripheral nerve injury

1993 • 230 citations

Differential effect of alpha-latrotoxin on exocytosis from small synaptic vesicles and from large dense-core vesicles containing calcitonin gene-related peptide at the frog neuromuscular junction.

1988 • 221 citations

Motor neurone sprouting induced by prolonged tetrodotoxin block of nerve action potentials

1977 • 215 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide enhances the rate of desensitization of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in cultured mouse muscle cells.

1988 • 208 citations

α-CGRP and β-CGRP mRNAs are differentially regulated in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion

1990 • 207 citations

Denervation increases a neurite-promoting activity in extracts of skeletal muscle

1983 • 189 citations

Nodal and terminal sprouting from motor nerves in fast and slow muscles of the mouse.

1980 • 146 citations

Terminal sprouting in mouse neuromuscular junctions poisoned with botulinum type a toxin: Morphological and electrophysiological features

1990 • 123 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide potentiates synaptic responses at developing neuromuscular junction

1993 • 114 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide increases in rat facial motoneurons after peripheral nerve transection

1989 • 112 citations

Peripheral nerve section induces increased levels of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity in axotomized motoneurons

1990 • 103 citations

Altered patterns of innervation in frog muscle after denervation

1976 • 102 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide prevents disuse-induced sprouting of rat motor nerve terminals

1988 • 97 citations

Release of calcitonin gene‐related peptide from nerve terminals in rat skeletal muscle.

1991 • 86 citations

Axonal transport and distribution of endogenous calcitonin gene-related peptide in rat peripheral nerve

1989 • 85 citations

The transneuronal induction of sprouting and synapse formation in intact mouse muscles.

1985 • 79 citations

Regulation of turnover and number of acetylcholine receptors at neuromuscular junctions

1990 • 71 citations

Sprouting of motor nerves in adult muscles: a recapitulation of ontogeny

1984 • 71 citations

Contralateral denervation causes enhanced transmitter release from frog motor nerve terminals

1981 • 62 citations

Botulinum A toxin and tetanus toxin do not affect presynaptic membrane currents in mammalian motor nerve endings

1983 • 62 citations

Axotomy-like changes in cat motoneuron electrical properties elicited by botulinum toxin depend on the complete elimination of neuromuscular transmission

1991 • 58 citations

Calcitonin gene-related peptide and chromogranin a: Presence and intra-axonal transport in lumbar motor neurons in the rat, a comparison with synaptic vesicle antigens in immunohistochemical studies

1989 • 57 citations

Calcitonin Gene—Related Peptides and Neuromuscular Interactions

1992 • 56 citations

The role of target muscles in the expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide mRNA in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus

1992 • 55 citations

Evidence That the Loss of Homeostatic Signals Induces Regeneration-Associated Alterations in Neuronal Gene Expression

1993 • 50 citations

Cholinergic growth factor from skeletal muscle elevated following denervation

1983 • 45 citations

Developmentally regulated expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide at mammalian neuromuscular junction

1990 • 43 citations

Heterogeneity of Rat Neurofilament Polypeptides Revealed by a Monoclonal Antibody

1986 • 40 citations

Chick myotubes in culture express high-affinity receptors for calcitonin gene-related peptide

1989 • 40 citations

BOTULINAL NEUROTOXINS AS TOOLS IN STUDIES OF SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS

1989 • 31 citations

Effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on synaptic acetylcholine receptor-channels in rat muscle fibres

1988 • 30 citations

Development of calcitonin‐gene‐related peptide, chromogranin a, and synaptic vesicle markers in rat motor endplates, studied using immunofluorescence and confocal laser scanning

1992 • 26 citations

Uptake and retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase in botulinum-intoxicated mice

1978 • 21 citations

Ultrastructural responses of the hypoglossal nucleus to the presence in the tongue of botulinum toxin, a quantitative study

1977 • 20 citations

Immunolocalisation of chromogranin B, secretogranin II, calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P at developing and adult neuromuscular synapses

1994 • 7 citations