Targetting of the gene encoding fibrillin-1 recapitulates the vascular aspect of marfan syndrome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 218-218

  Pereira, Lygia ^a,b   Andrikopoulos, Konstantinos ^a,c   Tian, Jenny ^a   Lee, Sui Ying ^a   Keene, Douglas R ^d   Ono, Robert ^d   Reinhardt, Dieter R ^d   Sakai, Lynn Y ^d   Biery, Nancy Jensen ^e   Bunton, Tracie ^f   Dietz, Harry C ^e,g   Ramirez, Francesco ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^e Medicine and Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^f Department of Comparative Medicine and Pathology ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRILLIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARFAN SYNDROME; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANIMALS; AORTIC ANEURYSM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0031252407     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1097-218     Document Type: Letter

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