Nitric oxide synthase 1 mRNA: Tissue-specific variants from rat with alternative first exons

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 913-919

  Oberbäumer, Ilse ^a   Moser, Doris ^a   Bachmann, Sebastian ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5' Untranslated regions (UTRs); Alternative promoters; Alternative splicing; Neuronal NOS; Tissue specific alternative first exons

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EXON; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0345403555     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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