Constitutive expression of mRNA for the same choline acetyltransferase as that in the nervous system, an acetylcholine-synthesizing enzyme, in human leukemic T-cell lines

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 71-74

  Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Tajima, Sonoko ^a   Yamada, Shin ^a   Watanabe, Yoshihiro ^a   Sato, Kazuo Z ^a   Matsui, Marika ^a   Misawa, Hidemi ^b   Kasahara, Tadashi ^a   Kawashima, Koichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropol Inst N   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; B Lymphocyte; Choline acetyltransferase; Radioimmunoassay; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; T Lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; LYMPHOCYTES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033534659     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00921-5     Document Type: Article

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