Conserved subcortical and divergent cortical expression of proteins encoded by orthologs of the autism risk gene MET

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1613-1626

  Judson, Matthew C ^a   Amaral, David G ^b   Levitt, Pat ^a,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

circuitry; HGF; neocortex; social; vision

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MACACA; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955760158     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq223     Document Type: Article

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