Transgenic mice in the study of polyglutamine repeat expansion diseases

Brain Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 699-714

  Bates, Gillian P ^a   Mangiarini, Laura ^a   Davies, Stephen W ^b  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; POLYAMINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0031659271     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1998.tb00196.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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