Multiple promoters direct stimulus and temporal specific expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the somatosensory cortex

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 216-219

  Nanda, Steven ^b   Mack, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Immediate early gene

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0032569941     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00242-3     Document Type: Article

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