A post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism restricts expression of the paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration antigen cdr2 to immune privileged tissues

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1406-1415

  Corradi, John P ^a   Yang, Chingwen ^a   Darnell, Jennifer C ^a   Dalmau, Josep ^b   Darnell, Robert B ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellar degeneration; immune privilege; leucine zipper protein; neuron specific gene expression; paraneoplastic neurological disease; translational regulation

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN CDR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS;

EID: 0031016501     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-04-01406.1997     Document Type: Article

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