Rat nicastrin gene: cDNA isolation, mRNA variants and expression pattern analysis

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 12-22

  Confaloni, Annamaria ^a   Crestini, Alessio ^a   Albani, Diego ^b   Piscopo, Paola ^a   Campeggi, Lorenzo Malvezzi ^a   Terreni, Liana ^b   Tartaglia, Marco ^a   Forloni, Gianluigi ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Culture expression; Nicastrin; Nonsense mediated mRNA decay; Rattus norvegicus; Tissue expression

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NICASTRIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROGLIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; RNA SPLICING;

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROGLIA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

RATTUS NORVEGICUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18944403235     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.12.022     Document Type: Article

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