Tissue specific control regions of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit NR2C promoter

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 929-934

  Suchanek, Bettina ^a   Seeburg, Peter H ^b   Sprengel, Rolf ^b  

^a MEDA Manufacturing GmbH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellar granule cells; Neuron specific expression; Promoter region; Silencing

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EMBRYO; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SILENCER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PC12 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030842921     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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