SMN deficiency disrupts brain development in a mouse model of severe spinal muscular atrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4216-4228

  Wishart, Thomas M ^a   Huang, Jack P W ^a   Murray, Lyndsay M ^a   Lamont, Douglas J ^b   Mutsaers, Chantal A ^a   Ross, Jenny ^a   Geldsetzer, Pascal ^a   Ansorge, Olaf ^c   Talbot, Kevin ^d   Parson, Simon H ^a   Gillingwater, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PROTEOMICS; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN;

MUS;

EID: 77957878494     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq340     Document Type: Article

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