Repressing the neuron within

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Fairbrother, Will ^a   Lipscombe, Diane ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 38049028988     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20696     Document Type: Review

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