Alternative splicing and expression of human and mouse NFAT genes

Genomics

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 279-291

  Vihma, Hanna ^a   Pruunsild, Priit ^a   Timmusk, Tõnis ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Brain; Ca2+ regulated transcription factor; Calcineurin; Nervous system; Neurons; NFAT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFATC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFATC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFATC4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NFAT GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53649105089     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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