Perturbation of Myelin basic protein (Mbp) splice variant expression in developing rat cerebellum following perinatal exposure to methylmercury

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 374-380

  Padhi, Bhaja K ^a   Pelletier, Guillaume ^a  

^a Environmental Health Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative gene splicing; Cerebellum; Methylmercury; Myelin basic protein; Rat; Real time quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METHYLMERCURY; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DOWN-REGULATION; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865324899     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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