Mice with truncated MeCP2 recapitulate many Rett syndrome features and display hyperacetylation of histone H3

Neuron

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 243-254

  Shahbazian, Mona D ^a   Young, Juan I ^a   Yuva Paylor, Lisa A ^a   Spencer, Corinne M ^a   Antalffy, Barbara A ^b   Noebels, Jeffrey L ^a   Armstrong, Dawna L ^b   Paylor, Richard ^a,c   Zoghbi, Huda Y ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Molecular and Human Genetics ^*  (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Division of Neuroscience   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; KYPHOSIS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MECP2 GENE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETT SYNDROME; SEIZURE; TREMOR;

EID: 0037130455     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00768-7     Document Type: Article

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