Cloning, structural organization analysis, and chromosomal assignment of the human gene for the neurosecretory protein Vgf

Genomics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 443-446

  Canu, Nadia ^a,d   Possenti, Roberta ^a   Ricco, Angela Serena ^b   Rocchi, Mariano ^b   Levi, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d Instituto di Neurobiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7Q; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0030725256     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4945     Document Type: Article

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