Acid sphingomyelinase deficient mice: A model of types A and B Niemann–Pick disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 288-293

  Horinouchi, Kenichi ^a   Erlich, Shai ^a   Perl, Daniel P ^a   Ferlinz, Klaus ^b   Bisgaier, Charles L ^c   Sandhoff, Konrad ^b   Desnick, Robert J ^a   Stewart, Colin L ^d   Schuchman, Edward H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CERAMIDES; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029012443     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0795-288     Document Type: Article

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