Dr. Wes Thompson
Select Publications from the Thompson Lab
Thompson, W.J. 2001. Seeing is believing: GFP transgenics illuminate synapse elimination. Neuron 31: 341-342 (commentary). Pdf1
Love, F.M. and Thompson, W.J. 1999. Glial cells promote muscle reinnervation by responding to activity-dependent postsynaptic signals. J. Neurosci. 19: 10390-10396. Pdf2
Lubischer, J.L. and Thompson, W.J. 1999. Neonatal partial denervation results in nodal, but not terminal sprouting and a decrease in efficacy of remaining neuromuscular junctions in rat soleus muscle. J. Neurosci. 19: 8931-8944. Pdf3
Love, F.M and Thompson, W.J. 1998. Schwann cells proliferate at rat neuromuscular junctions during development and regeneration. J. Neurosci. 18: 9376-9385. Pdf4
Trachtenberg, J.T. and Thompson, W.J. 1997. Nerve terminal withdrawal from rat neuromuscular junctions induced by neuregulin and Schwann cells. J. Neurosci. 17: 6243-6255. Pdf5
Kopp, D.M., Trachtenberg, J.T., and Thompson, W.J. 1997. Glial growth factor rescues Schwann cells of mechanoreceptors from denervation-induced apoptosis. J. Neurosci. 17: 6697-6706. Pdf6
Son, Y.-J., Trachtenberg, J.T., and Thompson, W.J. 1996. Schwann cells induce and guide sprouting and regeneration of the neuromuscular junction. Trends in Neurosciences 19: 280-285. Pdf7
Trachtenberg, J.T. and Thompson, W.J. 1996. Schwann cell apoptosis at developing neuromuscular junctions is regulated by glial growth factor. Nature 379: 174-177.
Son, Y.-J. and Thompson, W.J. 1995. Schwann cell processes guide regeneration of peripheral axons. Neuron 14: 125-132.
Son, Y.-J. and Thompson, W.J. 1995. Nerve sprouting in muscle is induced and guided by processes extended by Schwann cells. Neuron 14: 133-141.
Astrow, S.H., Son, Y.-J., and Thompson, W.J. 1994. Differential neural regulation of a neuromuscular junction-associated antigen in muscle fibers and Schwann cells. J. Neurobiol. 25: 937-952.
Astrow, S.H., Sutton, L. A., and Thompson, W.J. 1992. Developmental and neural regulation of a subsarcolemmal component of the rat neuromuscular junction. J. Neurosci. 12: 1602-1615.
Condon, K., Astrow, S.H., and Thompson, W.J. 1992. The role of innervation in the differentiation of early muscle fiber types in the rat. In. Neuromuscular Development and Disease, A.M. Kelly and H.M. Blau, eds., New York: Raven Press, pp. 239-250.
Condon, K., Silberstein, L., Blau, H. M., and Thompson, W. J. 1990. Differentiation of fiber types in the aneural musculature of the prenatal rat hindlimb. Dev. Biol. 138: 256-274.
Condon, K., Silberstein, L., Blau, H. M., and Thompson, W. J. 1990. The development of muscle fiber types in the prenatal rat hindlimb. Dev. Biol. 138: 275-295.
Thompson, W. J., Condon, K., and Astrow, S. H. 1990. The origin and selective innervation of early muscle fiber types in the rat. J. Neurobiol. 21: 212-222.
Other Papers by Students and Postdocs from Work in the Lab:
Lubischer, J.L. and Bebinger, D.M. 1999. Regulation of terminal Schwann cell number at the adult neuromuscular junction. J. Neurosci. 19: RC46. Pdf8
Trachtenberg, J.T. 1998. Fiber apoptosis in developing muscles is regulated by activity, neuregulin. Dev. Biol. 196: 193-203. Pdf9