Sexually dimorphic expression of the X-linked gene Eif2s3x mRNA but not protein in mouse brain

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 146-155

  Xu, Jun ^a   Watkins, Rebecca ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Eukaryotic initiation factor; Gender; Mental function; Neuron; Protein translation; Sex difference; Turner syndrome; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HABENULA; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE 45,X; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, SRY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 30444447780     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2005.06.011     Document Type: Article

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