Early Embryonic Death of Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II (NAALADase) Homozygous Mutants

Synapse

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-292

  Tsai, G ^a   Dunham, K S ^a   Drager, U ^a   Grier, A ^a   Anderson, C ^a   Collura, J ^a   Coyle, Joseph T ^a,b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Folate; GCPII; Glutamate; Knockout mouse; N acetylaspartylglutamate; NAALADase

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; GAMMA GLUTAMYL HYDROLASE; GLUTAMATE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE II; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEM CELL; SURVIVAL; UPREGULATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DIPEPTIDES; EMBRYO; EXONS; FOLIC ACID; GLUTAMATE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE II; HEMATINICS; HOMOZYGOTE; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0242402027     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10263     Document Type: Article

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