P0-Cre transgenic mice for inactivation of adhesion molecules in Schwann cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 883, Issue , 1999, Pages 116-123

  Feltri, Maria Laura ^a   D'Antonio, Maurizio ^a   Previtali, Stefano ^a   Fasolini, Marina ^a   Messing, Albee ^b   Wrabetz, Lawrence ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUS MUSCULUS;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; LAMININ; LAMININ RECEPTOR; MYELIN PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; LAMININ; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYELIN P0 PROTEIN; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECEPTORS, LAMININ; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033554365     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08574.x     Document Type: Article

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