Regional and progressive changes in brain expression of complexin II in a mouse transgenic for the Huntington's Disease mutation

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-55

  Freeman, Whitney ^a   Morton, A Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CPLX; Exocytosis; Neurodegeneration; R6 2 mouse; SNARE

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; COMPLEXIN II; MESSENGER RNA; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOWN-REGULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; R-SNARE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SNARE PROTEINS; SOLUBLE N-ETHYLMALEIMIDE-SENSITIVE FACTOR ATTACHMENT PROTEINS; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 2342586759     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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