Tissue transglutaminase during mouse central nervous system development: Lack of alternative RNA processing and implications for its role(s) in murine models of neurotrauma and neurodegeneration

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 122-133

  Citron, Bruce A ^a,b,c   Zoloty, Jamie E ^a,d   Suo, Zhiming ^a,b   Festoff, Barry W ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cross linking; TGM2

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIVER; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; THALAMUS;

MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 18044379187     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.12.009     Document Type: Article

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