Sensory ataxia and muscle spindle agenesis in mice lacking the transcription factor Egr3

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-91

  Tourtellotte, Warren G ^a   Milbrandt, Jeffrey ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EGR 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PTOSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; TREMOR;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA; BRAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 3; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARVALBUMINS; PROPRIOCEPTION; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031710559     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1757     Document Type: Article

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