Mutation of the Ca2+ channel β subunit gene Cchb4 is associated with ataxia and seizures in the lethargic (lh) mouse

Cell

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 385-392

  Burgess, Daniel L ^a,b   Jones, Julie M ^b   Meisler, Miriam H ^b   Noebels, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BETA CHAIN; CALCIUM CURRENT; CHANNEL GATING; CHROMOSOME 2; GENE MUTATION; LETHARGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEIZURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030614535     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81877-2     Document Type: Article

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