Suppressed UDP-galactose: Ceramide galactosyltransferase and myelin protein mRNA in twitcher mouse brain

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-540

  Taniike, Masako ^a   Marcus, Jill R ^b   Nishigaki, Toshinori ^a   Fujita, Nobuya ^a   Popko, Brian ^a,b   Suzuki, Kunihiko ^a,b   Suzuki, Kinuko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demyelination; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Psychosine; Twitcher mouse; UDP galactose:eramide galactosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GANGLIOSIDE GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GANGLIOSIDE GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MYELIN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032519935     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980215)51:4<536::AID-JNR13>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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