Inactivation of Hdh in the brain and testis results in progressive neurodegeneration and sterility in mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 300-306

  Dragatsis, Ioannis ^a   Levine, Michael S ^b   Zeitlin, Scott ^a,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFERTILITY; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTEGRASES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0033757718     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/81593     Document Type: Article

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