Classification of FABP isoforms and tissues based on quantitative evaluation of transcript levels of these isoforms in various rat tissues

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1695-1701

  Yamamoto, Takenori ^a   Yamamoto, Atsushi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiro ^a,b   Matsuo, Taisuke ^a   Yamazaki, Naoshi ^a   Kataoka, Masatoshi ^b   Terada, Hiroshi ^c   Shinohara, Yasuo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expression; Fatty acid binding protein; Isoform; Northern blotting

Indexed keywords

EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION PROFILE; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH LEVEL EXPRESSION; ISOFORM; ISOFORMS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RAT TISSUE; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL;

ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS; HISTOLOGY; MAMMALS;

TISSUE;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PROBE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RAT;

ANIMALS; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 70350289440     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-009-0065-7     Document Type: Article

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