Abnormal gene product identified in hereditary dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) brain

Nature Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 99-103

  Yazawa, Ikuru ^a   Nukina, Nobuyuki ^a   Hashida, Hideji ^a   Goto, Jun ^a   Yamada, Masao ^b   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RABBIT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOPLASM; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCLONIC CEREBELLAR DYSSYNERGIA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNDROME;

EID: 0029015557     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0595-99     Document Type: Article

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