τ Is widely expressed in rat tissues

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1235-1244

  Gu, Yongjun ^a,b   Oyama, Fumitaka ^a   Ihara, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Big ; Nonneural tissue; Phosphorylation; Small ;

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; TAU PROTEIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; HEART; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STOMACH; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029843684     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.67031235.x     Document Type: Article

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