Expression of thyroid transcription factor 1 gene can be regulated at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 251-261

  Lonigro, Renata ^a   De Felice, Mario ^b,c   Biffali, Elio ^b   Macchia, Paolo Emilio ^b   Damante, Giuseppe ^a   Asteria, Carmela ^b   Di Lauro, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THYROID CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, RAS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030050026     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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