Molecular cloning and characterization of an endogenous antisense transcript of Nphs1

Genomics

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1134-1140

  Ihalmo, Pekka ^a   Rinta Valkama, Johanna ^a   Mai, Petra ^a   Åström, Eva ^a   Palmén, Tuula ^a   Pham, Thu Trang ^b   Floss, Thomas ^b   Holthöfer, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Knockout mice; Mouse; Nephrin; Nphs1; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; NEPHRIN; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMBRYO CELL; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; THYMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INTRONS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LYMPH NODES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREAS; PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMUS GLAND;

HOMO; NEXUS;

EID: 2642524346     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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