The transthyretin gene is expressed in Schwann cells of peripheral nerves

Brain Research

Volumn 1348, Issue , 2010, Pages 222-225

  Murakami, Tatsufumi ^a   Ohsawa, Yutaka ^a   Zhenghua, Li ^b   Yamamura, Ken Ichi ^b   Sunada, Yoshihide ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia (DRG); Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP); Peripheral nerve; Schwann cell; Transthyretin (TTR)

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PREALBUMIN; METHIONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE EQUIPMENT; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; AGE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METHIONINE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PREALBUMIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77955708997     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

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