Medium weight neurofilament mRNA in goldfish Mauthner axoplasm

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-86

  Weiner, Orion D ^a   Zorn, Aaron M ^a   Krieg, Paul A ^a   Bittner, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Axoplasmic protein synthesis; Goldfish Mauthner axon; mRNA; Neurofilament protein

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLDFISH; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAUTHNER CELL; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030564999     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12860-3     Document Type: Article

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