Neurocristopathy resembling neurofibromatosis type 1 in an NGF-SV40 transgenic line

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 125-137

  Mazarakis, Nicholas D ^a   Yannoutsos, Nikos ^b   El Jabbour, Joseph N ^c   Hatton, Wendy ^a   Fletcher, Robert ^d   Grosveld, Frank ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Edgware Community Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RNA; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; RNA;

EID: 0029678258     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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