Expression of a myelin basic protein gene in transgenic shiverer mice: Correction of the dysmyelinating phenotype

Cell

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 703-712

  Readhead, Carol ^a,b   Popko, Brian ^a,b   Takahashi, Naoki ^a,b   David Shine, H ^b   Saavedra, Raul A ^a,b   Sidman, Richard L ^b   Hood, Leroy ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SHIVERER MOUSE MUTANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WILD TYPE GENE;

ALLELES; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, QUAKING; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; OPTIC NERVE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023613854     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90248-0     Document Type: Article

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