Selective striatal neuronal loss in a YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1555-1567

  Slow, Elizabeth J ^a   van Raamsdonk, Jeremy ^a   Rogers, Daniel ^a   Coleman, Sarah H ^b   Graham, Rona K ^a   Deng, Yu ^a   Oh, Rosemary ^a   Bissada, Nagat ^a   Hossain, Sazzad M ^a   Yang, Yu Zhou ^a   Li, Xiao Jiang ^b   Simpson, Elizabeth M ^a   Gutekunst, Claire Anne ^b   Leavitt, Blair R ^a   Hayden, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HUNTINGTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOKINESIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA; TIME FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10744227174     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg169     Document Type: Review

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