Four repeat high-Mol-Wt MAP2 forms in rat dorsal root ganglia

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-201

  Forleo, Paolo ^a   Couchie, Dominique ^a   Chabas, Sandrine ^a   Nunez, Jacques ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia; Microtubule associated protein 2; Tubulin binding

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AGING; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

AGING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030228573     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02736840     Document Type: Article

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