Tissue-specific and neural activity-regulated expression of human BDNF gene in BAC transgenic mice

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Koppel, Indrek ^a   Aid Pavlidis, Tamara ^a   Jaanson, Kaur ^a   Sepp, Mari ^a   Pruunsild, Priit ^a   Palm, Kaia ^a   Timmusk, Tõnis ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KAINIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KAINIC ACID; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 67650529805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-68     Document Type: Article

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