Visualizing mRNA Localization and Local Protein Translation in Neurons

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 85, Issue , 2008, Pages 293-327

  Dahm, Ralf ^a   Zeitelhofer, Manuel ^a   Götze, Bernhard ^a   Kiebler, Michael A ^a   Macchi, Paolo ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; COLIPHAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSPORT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LEVIVIRUS; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 37249084053     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)85013-3     Document Type: Review

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