Evolutionarily conserved, alternative splicing of reelin during brain development

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-238

  Lambert De Rouvroit, Catherine ^a   Bernier, Béatrice ^a   Royaux, Inès ^a   De Bergeyck, Vinciane ^a   Goffinet, André M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Brain development; Cerebral cortex; Disabled 1; Microexon; Polyadenylation; Reeler; Reelin

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOTIDE; REELIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0342819152     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7019     Document Type: Article

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