Axotomy alters alternative splicing of Choline acetyltransferase in the rat dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 513, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-248

  Saito, Atsushi ^a,b   Sato, Takashi ^a,b   Okano, Hiroyuki ^b   Toyoda, Ken Ichiro ^b   Bamba, Hitoshi ^b   Kimura, Shin ^a   Bellier, Jean Pierre ^a   Matsuo, Akinori ^a   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a   Hisa, Yasuo ^b   Tooyama, Ikuo ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cholinergic neurons; Hypoglossal nucleus; Immunohistochemistry; Laser capture microdissection; Nucleus ambiguus

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGUS NERVE;

ACCESSORY NERVE; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 64049098735     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21959     Document Type: Article

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