The relationship between SMN, the spinal muscular atrophy protein, and nuclear coiled bodies in differentiated tissues and cultured cells

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 365-374

  Young, Philip J ^a   Le, Thanh T ^b   Thi Man, Nguyen ^a   Burghes, Arthur H M ^b   Morris, Glenn E ^a  

^a GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coilin; Gems; Motor neurons; Nucleus; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

COILIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; RNA SPLICING; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SWINE;

EID: 0034194444     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4858     Document Type: Article

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