Cloning and characterization of two neural-salient serine/arginine-rich (NSSR) proteins involved in the regulation of alternative splicing in neurones

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 593-606

  Komatsu, Masaaki ^a,b   Kominami, Eiki ^b   Arahata, Kiichi ^a   Tsukahara, Toshifumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA; SERINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032713422     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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