The myelin vacuolation (mv) rat with a null mutation in the attractin gene

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1279-1286

  Kuwamura, Mitsuru ^a   Maeda, Masaya ^a   Kuramoto, Takashi ^a   Kitada, Kazuhiro ^b   Kanehara, Toshiko ^c   Moriyama, Mitsuaki ^a   Nakane, Yoshifumi ^b   Yamate, Jyoji ^a   Ushijima, Toshikazu ^c   Kotani, Takao ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIN; GENE PRODUCT; MYELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELISM; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRAIN STEM; CELL VACUOLE; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; TREMOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREMOR; VACUOLES;

EID: 0036800234     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.LAB.0000032375.70196.26     Document Type: Article

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