New Ataxic Tottering-6j Mouse Allele Containing a Cacna1a Gene Mutation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Li, Weidong ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Tian, Xiaoli ^b   Kim, Tae Yeon ^c   Ito, Namiko ^c   Watanabe, Kaori ^c   Tsuji, Akiko ^c   Niimi, Kimie ^c   Aoyama, Yo ^c   Arai, Takashi ^c   Takahashi, Eiki ^a,c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATAXIC TOTTERING 6J MOUSE; CACNA 1A GENE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EXON SKIPPING; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, P-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, Q-TYPE; CEREBELLUM; GENOME; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

MUS;

EID: 84865640929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044230     Document Type: Article

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