Characterization of Caenorhobditis elegans homologs of the Down syndrome candidate gene DYRK1A

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 571-580

  Raich, William B ^a   Moorman, Celine ^b   Lacefield, Clay O ^a   Lehrer, Jonah ^a   Bartsch, Dusan ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^b   Kandel, Eric R ^a   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HPK1; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN MBK1; PROTEIN MBK2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DYRK KINASE; DYRK1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MATURATION; CHEMOTAXIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOWN SYNDROME; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOSS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMELLING DISORDER; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ODOR; PHYLOGENY; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOWN SYNDROME; GENE DOSAGE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SMELL;

EID: 0037297691     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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