Molecular cloning and expression analysis of dystroglycan during Xenopus laevis embryogenesis

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 45-50

  Lunardi, Andrea ^a   Dente, Luciana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basement membrane; CNS; DAP complex; Dystroglycan; Dystrophin; Dystrophin associated proteins; Ectodermal layer; Expression pattern; Extracellular matrix; Eye; Ganglional cells; Muscular dystrophy; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DYSTROGLYCAN; DYSTROPHIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE TISSUE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIENCEPHALON; DYSTROGLYCANS; EMBRYO; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELENCEPHALON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036873421     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00356-8     Document Type: Article

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