Menkes disease: Recent advances and new insights into copper metabolism

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-129

  Tümer, Zeynep ^a   Horn, Nina ^a  

^a JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ATP7A; ATP7B; Copper metabolism; LEC rat; Menkes disease; Mottled mouse; Occipital horn syndrome; P type ATPase; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

COPPER SULFATE;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; COPPER METABOLISM; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MENKES SYNDROME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WILSON DISEASE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE INHERITANCE;

EID: 0029987184     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853899609092936     Document Type: Review

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