The Brain-Specific Protein MLC1 Implicated in Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy with Subcortical Cysts Is Expressed in Glial Cells in the Murine Brain

GLIA

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-295

  Schmitt, Angelika ^a,b   Gofferje, Viktor ^a   Weber, Melanie ^a   Meyer, Jobst ^a   Mössner, Rainald ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Section of Molecular Psychobiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catatonic schizophrenia; Development; In situ hybridization; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; BRAIN PROTEIN MLC1; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMBRYO; EPENDYMA CELL; GLIA CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MEGALENCEPHALIC LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY BULB; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEM CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOPHRENIA, CATATONIC;

EID: 0344876131     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.10304     Document Type: Article

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