Probable exclusion of the cortexin-encoding gene as a candidate for mouse neurological mutants: Nervous, tottering and motor neuron degeneration

Gene

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 305-306

  Horvath, David H ^a   Watson, Joseph B ^b   Travis, Gabriel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cromosome 8; Direct PCR sequencing; Northern analysis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029929016     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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