Transcription factor binding to the core promoter of the human monoamine oxidase B gene in the cerebral cortex and in blood cells

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-104

  Ekblom, Jonas ^a   Garpenstrand, Håkan ^a   Damberg, Mattias ^a   Chen, Kevin ^b   Shih, Jean C ^b   Oreland, Lars ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electrophoretic mobility shift assay; Lymphocytes; Monoamine oxidase; Personality; Promoter; Sp1

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032545190     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00864-7     Document Type: Article

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