Exogenous tau RNA is localized in oocytes: Possible evidence for evolutionary conservation of localization mechanisms

Developmental Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 86-94

  Litman, Pninit ^a   Behar, Lea ^a   Elisha, Zichrini ^b   Yisraeli, Joel K ^b   Ginzburg, Irith ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MICROINJECTION; MICROTUBULE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029980780     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.9992     Document Type: Article

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