Transcriptional dysregulation of coding and non-coding genes in cellular models of Huntington's disease

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1270-1275

  Bithell, Angela ^a   Johnson, Rory ^b   Buckley, Noel J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Huntingtin; Huntington's disease (HD); microRNA (miRNA); Neuronal dysfunction; Repressor element 1 silencing transcription factor (REST)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MICRORNA; REPRESSOR ELEMENT 1 SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULON; RNA DEGRADATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICRORNAS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70450192073     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0371270     Document Type: Article

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