Identification of cis-acting elements involved in an alternative splicing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene

Gene

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 203-208

  Shibata, Asami ^a,b   Hattori, Masahira ^a   Suda, Hideaki ^b   Sakaki, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Exon skipping; Mini APP gene; Neuron; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0030579118     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00150-3     Document Type: Article

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