Knocking the NT4 gene into the BDNF locus rescues BDNF deficient mice and reveals distinct NT4 and BDNF activities

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 350-357

  Fan, Guoping ^a   Egles, Christophe ^b   Sun, Yi ^c   Minichiello, Liliana ^d   Renger, John J ^b   Klein, Rüdiger ^d   Liu, Guosong ^b   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 4; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RNA; SYNAPSIN I;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN DEFECT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; GENICULATE BODIES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NODOSE GANGLION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; TRANSFECTION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0034038168     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73921     Document Type: Article

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