Neurodegeneration in Lurcher mice caused by mutation in δ2 glutamate receptor gene

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6644, 1997, Pages 769-773

  Zuo, Jian ^a   De Jager, Philip L ^a   Takahashi, Kanji A ^a,b   Jiang, Weining ^a   Linden, David J ^a,b   Heintz, Nathaniel ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXONS; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PURKINJE CELLS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA;

EID: 0030800468     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42009     Document Type: Article

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