A mouse model for spinal muscular atrophy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-70

  Hsieh Li, Hsiu Mei ^a   Chang, Jan Gowth ^b   Jong, Yuh Jyh ^c   Wu, Mei Hsiang ^a   Wang, Nancy M ^b   Tsai, Chang Hai ^b   Li, Hung ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033987669     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/71709     Document Type: Article

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