Sodium-dependent vitamin C transporter 2 deficiency causes hypomyelination and extracellular matrix defects in the peripheral nervous system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 47, 2011, Pages 17180-17192

  Gess, Burkhard ^a   Röhr, Dominik ^a   Fledrich, Robert ^b   Sereda, Michael W ^b,c   Kleffner, Ilka ^a   Humberg, Anne ^a   Nowitzki, Johanna ^a   Strecker, Jan Kolja ^a   Halfter, Hartmut ^a   Young, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; MYELIN; SODIUM DEPENDENT ASCORBIC ACID TRANSPORTER 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROZYGOTE; HYPOMYELINATION; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CELLS, CULTURED; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SODIUM-COUPLED VITAMIN C TRANSPORTERS;

EID: 81855196123     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3457-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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