Connexin32 and X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 221-230

  Bone, Linda Jo ^a   Deschênes, Suzanne M ^a   Balice Gordon, Rita J ^a   Fischbeck, Kenneth H ^a   Scherer, Steven S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

DEMYELINATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MYELIN SHEATH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0030660232     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.1997.0152     Document Type: Article

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