Altered expression of alternatively spliced isoforms of the mRNA NMDAR1 receptor in the visual cortex of strabismic cats

Molecular Vision

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 271-276

  Yin, Zheng Qin ^a,b   Deng, Ze Min ^a   Crewther, Sheila G ^a,c   Crewther, David P ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SOUTHWEST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CAT; CONGENITAL STRABISMUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PLASTICITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STRIATE CORTEX; TENOTOMY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CATS; ESOTROPIA; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0347787118     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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