Allelic imbalance of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) gene expression in human brain tissue

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 945-953

  Tjärnlund Wolf, Anna ^a   Hultman, Karin ^a   Curtis, Maurice A ^b   Faull, Richard L M ^b   Medcalf, Robert L ^c   Jern, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allelic imbalance; Gene expression; Human brain tissue; Polymorphism; Tissue type plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP3;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELIC IMBALANCE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN TISSUE; CADAVER; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEURONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; STROKE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 79958143773     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH10-10-0682     Document Type: Article

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