Neurofilaments, radial growth of axons, and mechanisms of motor neuron disease

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 709-723

  Williamson, T L ^a   Marszalek, J R ^a   Vechio, J D ^a   Bruijn, L I ^a   Lee, M K ^b   Xu, Z ^c   Brown Jr , R H ^d   Cleveland, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT H PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT L PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT M PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AXON; CELL DEATH; CELL DISRUPTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030434526     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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