Modeling spinal muscular atrophy in Drosophila links Smn to FGF signaling

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 481-495

  Sen, Anindya ^a   Yokokura, Takakazu ^a   Kankel, Mark W ^a   Dimlich, Douglas N ^a   Manent, Jan ^a   Sanyal, Subhabrata ^b   Artavanis Tsakonas, Spyros ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMN GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79551706478     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201004016     Document Type: Article

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