Expression analysis of the ataxin–1 protein in tissues from normal and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 individuals

Nature Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 94-98

  Servadio, Antonio ^a   Koshy, Beena ^a   Armstrong, Dawna ^a   Antalffy, Barbara ^a   Orr, Harry T ^b   Zoghbi, Huda Y ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029014180     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0595-94     Document Type: Article

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