Tissue- and development-specific expression of multiple alternatively spliced transcripts of rat neuronal nitric oxide synthase

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1507-1512

  Lee, Min Ae ^a   Cai, Li ^b   Hübner, Norbert ^c   Lee, Young Ae ^c   Lindpaintner, Klaus ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Gene expression; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0000661219     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119673     Document Type: Article

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