Transcriptional regulation of gene expression clusters in motor neurons following spinal cord injury

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ryge, Jesper ^a   Winther, Ole ^b,c,d   Wienecke, Jacob ^d   Sandelin, Albin ^b   Westerdahl, Ann Charlotte ^a   Hultborn, Hans ^d   Kiehn, Ole ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALMODULIN; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; MOTOR NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953176824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-365     Document Type: Article

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