Hunting for the function of Huntingtin

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 2, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 199-200

  Zheng, Qi ^a   Joinnides, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HD PROTEIN, HUMAN; HUNTINGTIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

GENE SEQUENCE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 67650311659     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.003376     Document Type: Note

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