Expression and mRNA splicing of glycine receptors subunits and gephyrin during neuronal differentiation of P19 cells in vitro, studied by RT-PCR and immunocytochemistry

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-220

  Heck, Susanne ^a   Enz, Ralf ^b   Richter Landsberg, Christiane ^c   Blohma, Dietmar H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

alternative mRNA splicing; embryonal carcinoma cell line P19; gephyrin; glial cells; glycine receptor subunit; neuronal differentiation in vitro

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PC12 CELLS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0345814044     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(96)00181-2     Document Type: Article

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