Dyrk1A Is Dynamically Expressed on Subsets of Motor Neurons and in the Neuromuscular Junction: Possible Role in Down Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Arque, Gloria ^a,c   Casanovas, Anna ^b   Dierssen, Mara ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN DYRK1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; DYRK1A GENE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DOWN SYNDROME; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84872435837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054285     Document Type: Article

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