A potassium channel mutation in weaver mice implicates membrane excitability in granule cell differentiation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 126-129

  Patil, Nila ^a   Cox, David R ^a   Bhat, Deepti ^b   Faham, Malek ^c   Myers, Richard M ^a   Peterson, Andrew S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GRANULE CELL; HOMOZYGOSITY; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; NEURONS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029115971     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1095-126     Document Type: Article

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