A mouse model for Zellweger syndrome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-57

  Baes, Myriam ^a   Gressens, Pierre ^b   Baumgart, Eveline ^c   Carmeliet, Peter ^d   Casteels, Minne ^a   Fransen, Marc ^a   Evrard, Philippe ^b   Fahimi, Dariush ^c   Declercq, Peter E ^a   Collen, Désiré ^d   Van Veldhoven, Paul P ^a   Mannaerts, Guy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZELLWEGER SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; ZELLWEGER SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 16944361876     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0997-49     Document Type: Article

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