Molecular cloning of Bral2, a novel brain-specific link protein, and immunohistochemical colocalization with brevican in perineuronal nets

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 148-159

  Bekku, Yoko ^a   Su, Wei Dong ^a   Hirakawa, Satoshi ^a   Fässler, Reinhard ^b   Ohtsuka, Aiji ^a   Kang, Jeong Suk ^a   Sanders, Jennifer ^a   Murakami, Takuro ^a   Ninomiya, Yoshifumi ^a   Oohashi, Toshitaka ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BREVICAN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LINK PROTEIN; LINK PROTEIN BRAL2; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 10744233916     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-7431(03)00133-7     Document Type: Article

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