Dystrophin expression in heterazygous mdxl+ mice indicates imprinting of X chromosome inactivation by parent-of-origin-, tissue-, strain- and position-dependent factors

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-182

  Bittner, Reginald E ^a   Popoff, Irene ^a   Shorny, Sigrid ^a   Höger, Harald ^b   Wachtler, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac muscle; Dystrophin expression; Imprinting; mdx mouse; Skeletal muscle; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; PYRUVATE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEART MUSCLE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHIMERA; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DYSTROPHIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PYRUVATE KINASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031019102     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050036     Document Type: Article

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