Isolation of sex-specific cDNAs from fetal mouse brain using mRNA differential display and representational difference analysis

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 91-97

  Eriksson, Annika ^a   Wahlestedt, Claes ^a   Nordqvist, Katarina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain; Mouse; mRNA differential display; Representational difference analysis; Sex development; Signal peptide differential display

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033386969     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00265-X     Document Type: Article

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