Quantification of myelin basic protein in the human fetal spinal cord during the midtrimester of gestation

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 306-314

  Grever, William E ^a,b   Chiu, Fung Chow ^a   Tricoche, Marianela ^a   Rashbaum, William K ^a   Weidenheim, Karen M ^a   Lyman, William D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

central nervous system; gene expression; human development; immunoblotting; northern blotting

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

FEMALE; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0029845573     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961209)376:2<306::AID-CNE11>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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