X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and connexin32

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 883, Issue , 1999, Pages 36-41

  Fischbeck, Kenneth H ^a   Abel, Annette ^a,b   Lin, Grace S ^b   Scherer, Steven S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUS MUSCULUS;

CONNEXIN 32; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL JUNCTION; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MOUSE; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; SCHWANN CELLS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033554326     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08564.x     Document Type: Article

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