A natural antisense transcript against Rad18, specifically expressed in neurons and upregulated during β-amyloid-induced apoptosis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2444-2457

  Parenti, Rosalba ^a   Paratore, Sabrina ^b   Torrisi, Antonietta ^b   Cavallaro, Sebastiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; DNA repair; Neurodegeneration; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN RAD18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN STEM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, ANTISENSE;

EID: 35748955206     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05864.x     Document Type: Article

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