Cloning and in situ hybridization analysis of the expression of polysialyltransferase mRNA in the developing and adult rat brain

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 69-81

  Wood, Graham K ^a   Liang, Jin Jun ^a   Flores, Gonzalo ^a   Ahmad, Sultan ^b   Quirion, Remi ^a   Srivastava, Lalit K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Development; Hybridization, in situ; mRNA; Polysialyltransferase; PSA NCAM; Rat

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYSIALIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEOCORTEX; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0030732499     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00209-X     Document Type: Article

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