Functional gene expression analysis of tissue-specific isoforms of Mef2c

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-139

  Sekiyama, Yoshiharu ^a   Suzuki, Hitoshi ^a   Tsukahara, Toshifumi ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Mef2c isoforms; Microarray analysis; Transcriptional activity

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2C GENE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

MUS;

EID: 84856516772     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-011-9743-9     Document Type: Article

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