Alternate Pax7 transcripts are expressed specifically in skeletal muscle, brain and other organs of adult mice

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1029-1036

  Ziman, Melanie R ^a   Fletcher, Susan ^a   Kay, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternate transcripts; Mouse; Myogenesis; Neurogenesis; Pax7

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAX GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PAX7 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030691149     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-2725(97)00023-X     Document Type: Article

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