Survival motor neuron - Motor neuron insurance for a whole lifespan?

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 301-310

  Rafałowska, Janina ^a   Sulejczak, Dorota ^a   Gadamski, Roman ^a   Dziewulska, Dorota ^a,b  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gemins; Protein expression; Rat; SMN; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN 20; GEMIN; GEMIN 2; GEMIN 4; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

EID: 84455192966     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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