Identification of two further splice variants of GABABR1 characterizes the conserved micro-exon 4 as a hot spot for regulated splicing in the rat brain

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-108

  Holter, Jethro ^a   Davies, Jeffrey ^a   Leresche, Nathalie ^b   Crunelli, Vincenzo ^a   Carter, David A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Groupe Enzymologie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle   (France)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Alternative splicing; GABA; GABAB receptor; Micro exon

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; EPILEPSY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 22344451111     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/JMN:26:03:99     Document Type: Article

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